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The Yankees are the gritty, gumption-y, big-heart boys of baseball

Icon SportswireI can feel you hating this take from wherever you're sitting, steaming mad in front of your computer, whether it's Boston or Seattle or, I don't know, godforsaken Cleveland. You loathe the Yankees, and the very idea that they embody some kind of plucky fighting spirit is anathema to your very worldview. “It's about payroll!” you shout at me, and though the Yankees aren't the richest team in baseball anymore (at no. 3, they're still pretty rich), normally you'd have a solid point. Sure, there's basically no chance a team like the Miami Marlins cam compete against MLB's wealthy juggernauts when their war chest is about one-third as large. That's pure economics, and I can't argue with you.
And yet, a closer look at the Yankee payroll shows that the most famous professional sports franchise in American history has been utterly screwed by lady luck in 2019. In Giancarlo Stanton alone, a player who has seemingly injured ev..

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