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Ten infields that make a daily difference

By Phil Rogers
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, January 13, 2003

If the New York Yankees are really baseball's Evil Empire, then it follows that they have their own battlestar, a collection of super weapons capable of blowing up the American League's other planets. Of course they do. It's the infield. Nowhere else on this $150-million team is there as great a concentration of firepower. For all the talk about Joe Torre's eight-man rotation and the addition of Japanese slugger Hideki Matsui, the strength of the Yankees day in and day out lies in the midd ...

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