Now if we could just get the Yanks to stop monopolizing the World Series.
Conversely, the Yanks were 52-29 at home and the Twins were 41-40 on the road.
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The question will be can the Yanks reduce payroll if they fail to make the playoffs?
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After all that chatter, it will be time for the Yanks to return to D.
The Yanks rid themselves of an aging player and cut payroll at the same time.
The Yanks have made the playoffs 15 of the last 16 years including five World Series titles.
The Yanks are now tied with the surprising Baltimore Orioles for first place with 27 games to play.
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However, the 2010 Phillies are more talented than the 2009 club which lost to the Yanks in six games.
Since the wild card was instituted in 1995, the Yanks have lost all three ALDS series playing as a wild card.
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"They wouldn't let us go until the Yanks turned up, " he recalls.
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It just makes sense, although Girardi was understandably silent on the subject when the Yanks visited Chicago last weekend to play the White Sox.
He led the Yanks from 1996 to 2007 and brought home four World Series championships, but the Yankees didn't make it to the series this year.
Is it a coincidence that the two highest payrolls, the Yanks and Red Sox, have won 40 percent of the World Series championship in this decade?
Also helping push the Yanks to the top was a strengthening U.S. dollar, which gained 17% on the British pound over the 12-month period we reviewed.
Torre, who guided the Yanks to four World Series championships in 12 seasons at the helm, could be replaced by bench coach and career Yank Don Mattingly.
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Burnett and first baseman Mark Teixeira to lead them to a World Series title in 2009, the Yanks are not a shoo-in to capture the 2010 championship.
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That would obviously deal a major blow to the Texas Rangers and make the Yanks the prohibitive favorites to win the World Series yet again in 2011.
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The Yanks, who will begin play Wednesday at Minnesota, are just 43-38 on the road while the Twins had the best home record in the American League at 53-28.
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The Mets may also be looking to dump closer Francisco Rodriguez and third baseman David Wright but neither would be a fit for the Yanks or the Red Sox.
Game Six between the Yanks-Phillies last year drew 22.3 million viewers which was the biggest World Series game audience since Boston ended 86 years of misery in 2004 with a title.
The Yanks and Phils are two of the biggest spenders in the game, both in terms of keeping their core of top players and going out to sign the best free agents.
With the Yanks down 3-0 in the American League Championship Series and facing elimination Wednesday, A-Rod was not in the starting lineup against righty Max Scherzer before the game was eventually rained out.
The Angels and Cubs might be the most likely suitors since the Yanks and Red Sox are set at 1st base and the Dodgers are still mired in the Frank McCourt divorce fiasco.
The Yankees and Phillies would never be able to create the buzz that the New Jersey Turnpike Series of 2009 caused and the Yanks-Mets Subway Series of 2000 would quickly become a one-hit wonder.
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Ichiro, batting an unaccustomed eighth, delivered a clean single up the middle and stole a base in his first at-bat Monday, going 1-for-4, but, if he can get back to his .300 hitting ways, the Yanks have a steal.
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Vegas has the Yankees favored by a nose over the Rays to win the American League pennant this year, but if the Yanks get knocked out early ratings will fall off a cliff as there is no other team to pick up the slack.
But because most clubs continue to overvalue closers against all the evidence (95% of all ninth inning leads result in victories, rendering a top closer a marginal contributor), the Yanks could probably get a nice haul of young talent by dangling Rivera to a contender.
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Using the statistical projections for those teams simulating this season 3, 000 times, the Yanks, Red Sox and Rangers are now virtual locks to make the playoffs, while the Tampa Bay Rays, a small-market party crasher three times since 2008, got a healthy bump as well.
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