Nice mixture of strawman arguments and classic Yankee fan bluster there.
And you keep supporting an organization that has been mismanaged for at least a decade.
What does my Mets fandom have to do with my ability to notice that the Yankee farm system is terrible? Robinson Cano is the most recent homegrown impact player the Yankees have produced and he's 31 and a free agent. Does me being a Mets fan change that fact? Did you not notice the glaring lack of talent and depth available from the minors when the injuries started to hit last year?
The question isn't whether the Yankees stack up against the Mets going forward. It's whether they stack up against teams like the Red Sox and Cardinals that can both afford to spend money and are loaded with young talent.
You keep collecting your picks and not doing anything with them. This is the same franchise that after spending millions on building a new stadium, they had to move the fences in because a pitchers ballpark did not support their team while their best player was an offensive 3rd baseman....
Again, I wasn't making a direct comparison between the Yankees and Mets. I have a post a mere three pages back in this thread begging for the Wilpons to be forced to sell the team. Take that as a hint on my views of their current direction. That said Sandy has done a great job building the farm system up from nothing. Having a ton of talented young pitching most certainly is helping us. Even with Harvey scheduled to miss the season, our rotation for next year looks something like:
1) Wheeler
2) Gee
3) Niese
4) Mejia/Montero/Syndergaard
5) Mejia/Montero/Syndergaard
If ownership was willing to spend on hitters we'd be in great shape.
27 world series. The most recent in 2009. I'll take my chances with the yankees management decisions over the mets. Good luck with Grandy. He has a severe issue with recognizing the breaking ball especially when facing a lefty.
Let me ask you something: Do you give a **** about all those cups the Canadiens won decades before you were born? Because I sure as **** don't and that's how I feel about the vaunted Yankee history too.
And none of that bravado changes the fact that the most recent extended run of Yankee success was built upon homegrown players. Without Jeter, Posada, Pettitte, Rivera, and Williams it never happens. All of those guys are either gone or about to retire. Where are their replacements?
I'm sure the Yankees will stay competitive because of their willingness to throw money around, but I wouldn't expect any more dominance if I were you. That farm system is one of the worst in baseball. We're entering an era where farm systems are becoming more and more important as the influx of cash into baseball means more and more superstars get extended by their own teams.
