Yet there is Beane on page 275 of “Moneyball,” the seminal 2004 book that laid out his number-crunching way of assembling a team, almost absolving the Yankees’ recent playoff flops by allowing that once any team gets to the playoffs, “My s--- doesn’t work … What happens after that is f------ luck.” Then, wait — now here’s Beane on page 141 of this year’s best-seller, “The Yankee Years,” seemingly contradicting his crapshoot theory by telling Joe Torre’s co-author, Tom Verducci, that maybe you really can hoard so much talent that, “At some point, a team becomes so good that they overcome the randomness.” "The ’98 Yankees were one of the greatest teams I ever saw ... They had everything you’d want a baseball team to have." The 2009 Yankees could be a juggernaut in ascent. Full Article at MSNBC Sports