First, you cannot put the blame all on one person because many of the players failed to live up to their potential but you cannot avoid the obvious. A-Rod is the biggest postseason failure their is! For his last 12 postseason games, he is 4 for 41 (.098) as compared with his average this year of .290. A-Rod may be the one of the best regular season players in the major leagues but he is the biggest bust in the postseason. For everyone that continues to say that Jeter should have moved to third base, it still would not change the batting statistics. And the simple fact is that Jeter is a better postseason player than A-Rod will ever be. I continue to think that A-Rod is a curse for any baseball team. I don't believe that A-Rod will ever have a World Series ring.
Second, while I think that Joe Torre is a great manager, the team make-up is so different that it may be time for a change. There are only a few players left from the team that won all of those championships, the players on the team now may need a different style of management.
Last, Steinbrenner needs to stop trying to buy all the high priced seasoned players and focus more on the Yankees farm system. The best pitcher on the staff this year was not the high priced veterans but Chien-Ming Wang. Unfortunately, the Yankee farm system is depleted because of all the high priced acquisitions made over the last few years.
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