So lately I have seen some people advocate that the Yankees should basically blow it up so that they can get younger and basically start the next dynasty in 2-3 seasons.We talked about this on the podcast so give a listen if you haven't already or just hate reading. I understand the sentiment but there are several very serious flaws with this idea and I will go over them.
No Value: Okay this is really the most obvious one but what pieces are the Yankees going to be able to move for value? The Pieces that the Yankees have that other teams would be looking to acquire are Hiroki Kuroda, Curtis Granderson, Robinson Cano, Phil Hughes, Brett Gardner, Dave Robertson and Mariano Rivera. I guess you can rule out Mo because duh, but really that's it and except for Robertson and Gardner they are all free agents at the end of the year. I know Beltran netted the Mets Zach Wheeler but that is not happening and at the time Wheeler was in A ball at the time.In the end moving these pieces would not improve the team in the near future and would honestly only really serve to make this years team worse. The Yankees wont be able to acquire MLB ready prospects for any of these players and so there really isn't a point to trading away all these guys for some moderate prospects.
Age: There seems to be this idea that Young players are better and I am here to say that its not the case. Everybody wants to have a Mike Trout but look at Will Middlebrooks, he has totally bombed this season after a good 2012. Young players fail a lot and while its good to have some they go through growing pains look at Jesus Montero. Age is not the end all be all that some people think it is so get used to these old guys being around a while longer.
Winning: Despite what some people act like the Yankees are in the thick of it, they stand at 46-39 as of today and are 1.5 games out of the wild card. If they win this home series against the O's then they will be in the second wild card spot. However as we said on the podcast some fans basically treat this as a losing season saying that this team wont win a World Series so they should just sell because that's the end game for the Yankees. I'm just here to tell you that it is much harder to win the World Series if you don't make the playoffs and its only going to get harder to make the playoffs in the next few years as Tex, CC and Arod get older.
Sucking isn't a slam dunk: This isn't basketball or football people one top pick doesn't change your franchise. If the Yankees suck for 2-3 years they are not suddenly going to have these amazing pieces and start a new dynasty. The Yankees got really lucky in the late 90's they developed five legitimate homegrown all-stars, that's not supposed to happen and its not going to happen with a few years of rebuild. Look at home many years the Royals or Mariners have stunk and they have been rebuilding for a decade or more, rebuilding almost never works which is why the same franchises always seem to be rebuilding.
In the end this is kind of a moot point as the Yankees arent going to sell, espechially not when they have a winning record, if they wind up 5 games under .500 on July 31st then its an idea but I would still bet against it.
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