The 10 most disappointing, underperforming Yankees teams
By Ryan Morik
![NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 06: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Alex Avila #13 of the Detroit Tigers celebrates after Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees struck out to end Game Five of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 6, 2011 in the Bronx borough of New York City. The Tigers defeated the Yankees 3-2 to win the best of five series 3 games to 2. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 06: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Alex Avila #13 of the Detroit Tigers celebrates after Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees struck out to end Game Five of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 6, 2011 in the Bronx borough of New York City. The Tigers defeated the Yankees 3-2 to win the best of five series 3 games to 2. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/ff061b1f8d1773a386d76232522ecd6c941b7756aa94d96488000479a89d3ba2.jpg)
Yankees disappointment No. 3: Tie – 2005, 2006, 2007
The Yankees essentially had the same team these three years, with some chances to the rotation each year. The Yankees brought in Randy Johnson in 2005, and Chien-Ming Wang was a Cy Young Award candidate in 2006. We don’t speak of Carl Pavano.
The Yankees won 95, 97 and 94 games, respectively, in those three seasons. Alex Rodriguez won two MVPs, Derek Jeter was robbed of one, and Robinson Cano quickly became an MVP candidate himself.
There has barely been any mention of Mariano Rivera throughout this entire piece, but yeah, he was there, too.
These seasons are so disappointing because it was three consecutive years where the Yankees easily could have made the World Series. Granted, none of their matchups were easy, and it would only get tougher had they managed to win all of the division series, but as previously mentioned, they had several players who were either future Hall of Famers or at least putting up borderline Hall of Fame numbers.
Sure, other teams in the league wound up being just as good, if not, better than the Yankees all of these years. But on paper, no team was better than the Yankees. With all three of these teams eerily similar, they all take a three-way tie for third.