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Rob Neyer argues that the Yankees will cut ties with Hideki Matsui in an effort to get younger:
Well, yes … but there’s something else, too, that Kepner touches on just tangentially: the Yankees are old. Now it seems that their American League pennant was inevitable, but was it really? Three of their best players were [...]
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