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Old 05-17-2007, 05:54 PM   #613
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Originally Posted by Skipaway View Post
Special in the when you remove all the big name players, the team would have been a below .500 team kind of way?
The "big name" players weren't really big names in 1998. Jeter, Pettitte & Rivera were in their 3rd years (with Rivera being a closer for the 2nd year) and Posada was just taking over from Girardi. That leaves Bernie and Cone being the big name players who were "proven" in '98.
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