Yank on This

Not to walk all over what Roger wrote, but The CHB's Sunday column is guilty of premature evacuation.

How many times have this group of Yankees been written off as too old, too overpaid, too hurt, too well, too anything? And yet all they do is win:

1996	New York Yankees
1997	Baltimore Orioles
1998	New York Yankees
1999	New York Yankees
2000	New York Yankees
2001	New York Yankees
2002	New York Yankees
2003	New York Yankees
2004	New York Yankees
2005	New York Yankees††
2006	New York Yankees
2007	Boston Red Sox
2008	Tampa Bay Rays
2009	New York Yankees
2010	Tampa Bay Rays
2011	New York Yankees
2012	New York Yankees

That's 13 times in 17 years, in case you are wondering.

Then there's the Blue Jays. So what, exactly, makes them such a slam-dunk for the AL East this year? The addition of three players from the last-place Miami Marlins? Good luck.