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"The Manny Effect" on managers

By Chris Sprow
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Remember this play -- Jeter's perfect, impossibly instinctual why-is-he-even-on-the-screen backhand flip to Jorge Posada? This play never happened. That's because in 2001, Jeter doesn't get to flip the ball to Posada if the Yankees don't make the playoffs, and the Yankees don't make the playoffs if they aren't anchored by Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, who combined for 32 wins. If they took place back then, the drug tests that claimed Manny Ramirez last week may have wreaked havoc on a Y ...

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