On-Base Perception
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Believe it or not, these Yankees were a success
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It's hard, on Oct. 19, one day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs via a humiliating sweep in the ALCS at the claws of the Detroit Tigers, to consider the Yankees' season anything but a failure. It's hard to feel confident about the 2013 squad. It's easy to assign blame to one and all and beg for some rich sucker to bite on the gargantuan contract of Alex Rodriguez.
And yet,...
