If all this is so, and if it's an annual pattern for the Yankees to field an elderly nine and then win 95 games, why does the fretting continue?

WSJ: New York Yankees: Getting Old Is Nothing to Fear��Tim Marchman

From its discovery in 1973 until 1989, a particular well in the field followed the usual pattern of gradually declining production.

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This pattern we have seen repeated again and again in every field of life.

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