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QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
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The New York Yankees have won 27 World Championships, far and away the most in the history of the game. They are perhaps the most hated MLB franchise as they have a history of spending more than any other baseball team in the hopes of winning a World Series every single year.
But they haven?t won a title since 2009, which is a long time for a franchise which routinely spends the most and also has been able to stock their minor leagues with immense talent.
Routinely, the Yankees have been able to assemble some of the greatest offensive talent in all of baseball, as their lineups have included many of the greatest hitters in the league. They have also spent huge amounts of money to sign starting pitchers, in the hopes they will be the final pieces in pushing them over the hump.
On Saturday night, the Yankees, behind their ace, Gerrit Cole, lost a 2-1 game that eliminated them from the 2020 playoffs. Cole is in the first season of a 9-year contract that pays him $36M a year. And yet, they lost to a Tampa Bay Rays team whose collective roster earned just under $29M in 2020.
With all of that, the Yanks haven?t won a championship in 11 years. So it begs a question.
How are the NY Yankees emblematic of how difficult it is to win a championship?
