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The main lesson of this season is not that the players failed on the field but
the organization failed them in the winter and during the season. In addition
to the rather desperate moves the team made — as well as they worked out,
Chacon and Small were reaches — the team needed an outfielder and one more
reliever. For the Yankees braintrust, that was Operation Market Garden, a
bridge too far. The lesson is that you can spend $200 million but it won't help
you if you spend it poorly.
Then there's Tony Womack. Without Womack's early season ineptitude, the Yankees
would have won the American League outright and had home-field advantage in the
playoffs. The reverse of this lesson is that the Yankees wouldn't have gotten
anywhere at all without Alex Rodriguez. The press and the fans can pillory him
for his poor postseason performance, but it's just scapegoating. A lot of
Yankees didn't hit in the Division Series. These things happen. Babe Ruth went
2-for-17 in the 1922 World Series. Joe DiMaggio went 2-for-18 in the 1949 World
Series (though the Yankees won). Yogi Berra was 1-for-16 in that same series.
The key for both Berra and DiMaggio is that their teammates picked them up.
A-Rod's didn't. We could go on: Mickey Mantle, 3-for-25 in the 1962 World
Series (Yankees won), 2-15 in the 1963 classic (Yankees lost).
Reggie Jackson was a homerless 2-for-16 in the 1977 ALCS against the Royals,
but the Yankees covered for him and went on to the World Series. It was there
that he earned the "Mr. October" appellation by hitting .450 with five home
runs in six games. It wouldn't have happened without support from his teammates.
The great Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post cited the Yankees,
"Dysfunctional Culture of Blame," and called the "Are You a Real Yankee?"
discussion that Rodriguez must not be subjected to "self-defeating
foolishness." He's dead on.
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