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Scout's take: "I'm sorry, I just don't see it: This is not a championship team. CC's performance in big games has to be a concern; I don't have much confidence in him in the big spot. You know Burnett's going to make a couple trips to the DL. The defense behind the pitching is still a horror show. With all this stuff going on with A-Rod, getting Teixeira was even bigger for them, because a lot of their problems last year were actually with scoring runs. [Jorge] Posada is such an important part of what they do, they need him to somehow stay in the lineup. They're going to struggle to get into the playoffs."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/b ... ml#NewYork


i think someone ODed on the hatorade there

It's always hilarious when people like this have a vision of some stunning ballclub winning it all, especially in the beginning of the season. The 2006 Cardinals were a .500 team that backed into the playoffs in a bad division. Then they won the World Series, and people stopped remembering (or pretended to forget) that they were a mediocre team that did well in a playoff system that's a crapshoot compared to the other major sports.

Getting into the playoffs isn't guaranteed, but that's mostly because the division is ridiculously good. But if they get in, I like their chances about the same as I like anybody's.

tl;dr, this scout is an idiot.

All of his points have some validity, but he's clearly judging the Yankees by a different standard.