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They recognized their needs and got quality players to fill them.

Cmon!

Signing Bill Mueller is seeing a need and filling it with a quality player.

Taking a chance by signing Jon Leiber is risky/good GM work.

Getting Kevin Brown/Javier Vasquez/Alex Rodriguez/Gary Sheffield in ONE offseason is a tad overboard IMO and covers up mistakes that would DOOM most teams(giambi/contreras).

EDIT: I will concede that Brain Cashman is a good GM, but the NYY have amargin for error that FAR exceeds any other team.