> Because Brian Cashman believes in sabermetrics. I'm really > not quite sure why a Yankee fan, of all people, would disagree with me. > Your _own team_ is managed pretty much exactly the way that I would manage a > team if I could, and it's done really well over the past few years. There > might be something to these ideas if the teams that adopt them tend to beat > the teams that don't. > But many of the players came through or were well into the system before Cashman was there. The Yankees have been lucky (oops now I have admitted you were right) but this luck has to do with getting talented players with their heads on straight in their system. They have done a marvelous job in developing them but some of it just having the right people.
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