So lazy.

I know the best way to win the World Series.

Do what the Giants did.

Because the Giants won the World Series:

"A look at how San Francisco and Kansas City competed should give Brian Cashman and Sandy Alderson some ideas about how to tinker with their rosters. Young and fast is the way to go. While power is and always will remain important, it is better still to have consistent contact hitters. For all the fearsomeness Pablo Sandoval, Hunter Pence, Buster Posey, Eric Hosmer, Alex Gordon, Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez offered, four of the Series’ final five games concluded without a homer. And that one homer, by Moustakas, simply provided the meaningless final run in the Royals’ 10-0 rout in Game 6.

In fact, there were only five homers hit the entire series."

Right.

If the Royals had one more well-timed homerun, then they're World Series champs.


"Instead of collecting every 38-year-old still working, the Yanks should focus their attention on importing younger, faster talent and developing through the minors. Imagine the stir they’d cause if a fast-growing star like Joe Panik came out of their system — just as a good-looking shortstop named Derek Jeter did 20 years ago — and produced a play like that third-inning, glove-hand flip that turned a potential rally into a double play. Imagine if they had a fast, fleet outfielder like Lorenzo Cain, who ran down just about everything in the expansive Kaufman Stadium outfield."

The 2014 Yankee outfield was Gardner, Ellsbury, and Ichiro. That may not be a young outfield, but it's athletic.

I think we all know by now that a lot of high-priced Yankee players are depreciating at the same time. It is a problem that doesn't seem to have a quick fix.

But young isn't necessarily good, and athletic isn't necessarily good. The Yankees can send out Brendan Ryan and Zoilo Almonte and you've got athletic and young covered, as long as you're willing to endure a lot of combined 0-for-10s.


The good news, of course, is that you don't have to be a good team anymore to win the World Series. So maybe Tanaka stays healthy, Beltran and McCann rebound a bit, the 3-4-5 hitters learn how to get an occasional RBI, and the Yankees get hot in October after winning the second wild card with 86 wins.


"Suppose they stopped making an issue of 39-going-on-100-year-old Alex Rodriguez, left Chase Headley alone at third to excel there, and developed a younger talent who could offer hitting and defense in the style of the 28-year-old Sandoval."

Correct. If only Yangervis Solarte was better. But he isn't.

The Yankees should also develop Bumgarner while they're at it.

That's what they should totally do! Just develop lots of World Series MVPs in their minor leagues.

I wish Cashman had thought of that.