"The Yankees have stars. Lots of stars. They have Alex Rodriguez, who has 518 more home runs than your local auto mechanic, but just as many championships."
They have Chien-Ming Wang with a playoff ERA so high, it can get into Barely Legal magazine.
"What they do not have enough of are the productive role players who lend invaluable depth and breadth to a team's clubhouse and effort. They have not had a Paul O'Neill or Scott Brosius or Tino Martinez."
O'Neill -- Great player. Zero World Series homeruns.
Brosius -- Awesome World Series MVP in 1998. If Brosius was the Yankee third baseman this year, the Yankees would have been in fourth place.
Tino -- Not only have the Yankees had players like Tino Martinez, they had Tino Martinez. In 2005. Not surprisingly, he hit .000 in the playoffs that year.
Not too shocking given his .231 career playoff batting average.
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