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Romi Francisca
Was Yankees, Steinbrenner an immediate success, scoring three consecutive World Series in early 1976, his fourth full season as a starter. The Yankees would win in 1977 and 1978, and the impact of acquisitions as a free agent Reggie Jackson are certainly important.
After losing the World Series in 1981, but the Yankees a new period of relative nullity as of the last shot would have reached. The Yankees have 90 + games three times in this stretch and won, making ready in 0500 but less than five times and not even the playoffs. Steinbrenner constantly coined certainly at this time to mix in his team, especially administrators. After the 1981 season and before the hiring of Buck Showalter in 1992, the Yankees have played in nine different managers, including Billy Martin five three distinct seasons with the team management.
This brings us to the Yankees dynasty, we all remember. In 1995-2000, the Yankees made the playoffs six times, including four division championships and four wins in a row. These teams are career - Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte, for example, talented, and carried out by other trades, such as Paul O'Neill, Scott Brosius and Roger Clemens. But free agency was the key. Yankees manager Joe Girardi has Wade Boggs, David Cone and David Wells, all important elements in the various stations during this period.
Steinbrenner teams began to exploit it to make the free will and his immense wealth in the 2000s. In 2001 the Yankees signed Mike Mussina a contract for money. 2002 was the addition of Jason Giambi. In 2003, the import of Hideki Matsui. Although by the exchange in 2004, shows the contributions of Alex Rodriguez and Kevin Brown and the tremendous power of the financial assets of Steinbrenner. In more than 22 million Rodriguez contract and Brown, $ 15,000,000, the Yankees signed Jose Contreras for $ 8,500,000 from Cuba and Gary Sheffield to 13 million dollars. The Yankees were $ 16,000,000 compared to Randy Johnson in 2005. In 2006, the Yankees had four different players (Mussina, Jeter, Rodriguez and Giambi) earn at least $ 19,000,000 and then Bobby Abreu has $ 16,000,000 contract. The Yankees have $ 39,000,000 free agent Andy Pettitte, Carl Pavano, Johnny Damon and contracts more in 2007. The Yankees have been pat in 2008 in anticipation of more orders coming in the books.
This period is generally considered a failure because the Yankees won no titles in this time, but do not forget that this team very, very, were very good. All teams, except for the 2008 team, which has suffered from the termination of certain large contracts, but still won 84 games, reached the playoffs. In general, the Yankees had a .599 winning percentage points from 2001 to 2008, than money can buy. The team has just in the playoffs, which bombarded the media to play to the failure of the expensive free agents with man guilty more.
Although Steinbrenner retired in 2006, his fingerprints are still on the computer. Current revenues lost share, the Yankees may continue funding in the free agent market to inject by players like CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett to the champions of 2009 World Series, despite the fact that it contains many expensive free agents.
Much of the coverage today Steinbrenner emerged as a hero. This is too much. It was very difficult for their workers. Made illegal campaign donations to the campaign of Nixon. As always, it's better, Joe Posnanski made:
Steinbrenner is what you make. He is the convicted criminal who has quietly million for charitable purposes, the ruthless leader ensures that his childhood hero and his friends were on the payroll, the owner twice suspended, that the game resulted in a new era, the loser of a Price has won, evil wins, which have lost much, the troubled son, who wanted for his father, the dog the attention that she could not stand the lack of attention to, threw the racket money saved New York Yankees and sent them to despair and save them again (in part by stay out of the way), the club demanded access to soft demand of all its employees and to meet humbly to the phone and help a stranger whom he had learned in the newspaper.
As for its impact on the game of baseball, but there can be no debate. George Steinbrenner has a big part of making the appropriate point was free. His team has the way of other big market teams do business, changed, forcing their teams of the 2000s, when the Yankees the Red Sox and the Mets would have to make their payroll never thought in an area of 100 million U.S. dollars, or nearly $ 170,000 .000 payroll Red Sox this season. George Steinbrenner of the winners in New York, and although sometimes creates losers by their intervention doubt I do, that his seven world championship titles and 11 American League pennant series in this special care. Steinbrenner is the most successful producers in the history of professional sport, and that is what will remind him than baseball.
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