The Dodgers are the Yankees’ greatest alibi.
They are the West Coast doppelgangers who also have spent billions and billions of dollars chasing championships, and have one — in the pandemic 60-game 2020 season — since 1988. So the last time the Dodgers won it all in a full season was when Kirk Gibson famously limped around the bases — thus, just two years after the Mets’ last title.
Their farm system was made more barren by bad moves, like dealing Jay Buhner to the Mariners for Ken Phelps during the ‘88 season and when they tried to trade a veteran for youngsters they received little for Jack Clark. The front office was fractured. The word on the street for free agents with good offers elsewhere was to avoid The Bronx chaos. That led to a four-year period of darkness from 1989-92 when the Yankees had the majors’ second-worst winning percentage.
The Dodgers relied on Kershaw , young starters such as Bobby Miller and the2. The star right fielder again went cold. It was assumed that offseason that Harper’s preferred destinations were the Yankees or Dodgers, and Los Angeles offered the lefty slugger a reported four years at $180 million, but would not give him the length he desired. Harper ultimately signed with the Phillies for 13 years at $330 million.
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