This is a big election year … not in Washington, but Yankeeland. The Yankees have to elect to go with the new way of managing their business, or revert back to the old way of buying other teams’ players. After the Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time in 13 years, will they continue to build from within or go the expensive, free agent route? Media types and others who screamed over the early 90’s for the Yankees to get younger with homegrown talent are now screaming for the Yankees to go out and get everybody else’s players to make sure that 2008 does not repeat itself. Would it be that bad next year if the Yankees played well with younger players, but missed out again on the playoffs? I say not at all. Young players need to dev... (view full text)