A team batting average of 290 (best in baseball) A team OBP of .374 (best in baseball) A team OPS of 836 (best in baseball) A team slg% of .462 (2nd best in baseball) A team with 670 runs (2nd in baseball) 7 of your 9 starting position players hitting over 280 5 of those 7 players hitting over 300 Both Jim Leyritz & Mike Stanley were on pace to hit 20-25 HRs Danny Tartabull was on pace for 25-30 HRs Paul O'Neill was on pace to have his first 30 HR season. Paul O'Neill had an AMAZING .460 OBP Wade Boggs was hitting 342 Jimmy Key was not only on pace for his 1st 20 win season but was also on pace to win 25 games. Many said this was one of the best Yankee teams EVER. You could smell a world series but then......BOOM! I felt bad mostly for #1 Don Mattingly & also Buck Showalter. Sometimes life just isn't fair.....................1994
true, 94 sucked. What I'd of given to DH Martinez, have Donnie play 1 more year to get the Ring...... Buck flat out gets screwed most of his life, same with his stint in Phoenix (f'k Garigiola).... I think you'd love Torre's book Rick. Some great insights into the Series he was a part of, crucial crazy calls, like bunting with 2 outs, man on 1st.....in Series play. I love the blow by blow shit we only hear about years after the events, usually in book form, some never even makes the news, the good stuff that is....
That was also the year that we could have had 7 50 HR hitters, including what many felt would have been the 1st to legitimately broken Roger Maris's record. Matt Williams who had 43 HRs at the time of the strike & was on pace to hit 65. The other 6 heading toward 50 that year was Fred McGriff (34), Frank Thomas (38), Barry Bonds (37), Albert Belle (36), Ken Griffey jr (40) & Jeff Bagwell (39). Also Mike Mussina could have had is 1st 20 win season (16 at the strike) & as mentioned the Yankees Jimmy Key was well on his way to his 1st & would have been his only 20 win season & a CYA having gone 17-4 at the time of the strike. Yeah 94 really f'ked things up.
I really like Jimmy Key way back when he was a Jay, the moxy of that Team too....what could of been. I blame all this on Bud Selig, may it Tarnish the Golden Boy image MLB is trying to paint of Selig in time for his retirement, while trying to hand select his right hand puppet as his replacement. The worst Commish I've seen in my many many decades.....
The best Yankee team ever also happens to be the best team ever - The 1998 Yankees. Take it from there and I'll play along.
The 98 team was why I said in the OP that the 94 team could have been ONE of the best Yankee teams ever.
My favorite as well, perhaps..........those 61 Yanx were awesome as much IMO..... Never forget Murder's Row Tho.......!
____________________________________ No doubt, the '61 and '27 teams were tremendous all time great teams... ...but it looks as if you too, have "forgotten" one of the absolute greatest teams of all time...the team which some how always seems to fly under the radar when discussions of all-time great teams takes place. The 1939 Yankees. Check them out some time.
Rick, here's one - whaddya think? The 2009 Yankees won 103 games and the World Series. They were the only team to win 100 in MLB that year. They lead in HRs, runs scored and also set a (then) defensive record with most consecutive games without an error. 2009 Yankees were the first team to win at least 100 games and the WS since the 1998 team and before that you'd have to go back to 1986 for the LAST team prior to that to win 100 games and the WS. The 2009 Yanks are your basic underrated overlooked "great" all-time.. and I truly believe it.
good input, and Thanx....there's been a TON of great Yankee Teams, take your pick..... BTW- I thought this OP, was about Rick's getting stood up by Jennifer Lopez, AGAIN.....!
Especially if you were an Expos fan. The Expos were 74-40 and had a roster that boasted Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, five all-stars including Moises Alou, Wil Cordero, Darren Fletcher, Ken Hill (on pace for 23 wins), and Marquis Grissom, the manager of the year in Felipe Alou, a batting order hitting everything in sight. Going to games was an occasion. Nothing was the same after that season. The team crumbled and the fans lost interest.
Yeah Speeds, can't mention 1994 without thinking about the Expos. A 6 game lead over the Braves at the time of the strike. And for there final 10 seasons after that in Montreal they only managed to play 500 ball in 3 of those seasons & never made the playoffs.
Bullshid....the days of Unions, less MLB-Sports is long lived beyond their time..... Spent 12 Years in Aerospace under the UAW, and 17 in Aerospace under Northrop, (no effing Unions) got much better benefits, pay much more, just to keep those effing unions OUT.........!!! Had quit a few buddies, uproot their families to go to work for Boeing Seattle....6 months later they went on the longest strike in their history.....all those guys had to scramble for jobs, most worked two, paying less than they made at Boeing. After approx-5 to 6 months, Boeing Employees settled for a helluva lot less than they were originally offered. Thank the effing Union.........
I too loathe Unions. Bunch of hypocrites......debated Unions with a Steward when I worked on the Shuttle (UAW) told him I worked in both shops, non union and union. Got better treatment in non union shops, pay too, in that Union Shop, most grievances might as well been written on toilet paper. At the end of those long 2 day debates, he drove a Fiat Home, I drove a Chevy Truck....now whose effing who.....? Maybe a Union is only necessary these days to the un-civilized Chinese buying importee store-"Walmart"..otherwise screw unions.
