2008 Yankees

With 12 straight years of playoff baseball the Bronx Bombers could be watching, not from the dugout this September, but from the familar surroundings of their own homes.

Brian Cashman may have just made one of the toughest decisions he's had to make thus far as GM of the New York Yankee's. Talented young right handers, Joba Chamberlain and Philip Hughes stay in pin stripes for now, but one wonders how long before the boss has had enough and we see the Yanks get rid of young kids coming through the system and it not result in a World Series title.

Imagine being selected by the most storied team in baseball history come draft day. Something that you would be able to tell your grand children about right? But actually having a story about you playing for the Yanks at history filled Yankee stadium would probably a long shot unless in a visiting uniform.

When Brian Cashman decided that not bringing the biggest name on the free agent market to New York was the best move for the direction of his team is when guys in the oraganization like Joba Chamberlain realized that they might have been actually drafted as a guy that might contribute and not just trade bait.

The Minnesota Twins were after a lot of young talent that the Yanks had to offer and even Cashman had to let Johan Santana slip through the cracks and eventually sit back and watch as the cross town rival New York Metropolitans made the young south paw a very wealthy man.

In return Brian Cashman and the organization decided to stay within the oraganization and see if letting time, not money bring a championship back to Bronx.