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This is a quibble which does little but distract from your fine article, but...
SI's attempt to sell the Yankee dynasty as home-grown is little more than propaganda, IMHO.
Subtract the WAR- $ value that those 4 guys have added, and the Yankees' purchased talent has still dwarfed the other 29 teams'.  In other words, sub in a purchased closer for the $10M Rivera, a purchased SS for the $18M Jeter, and the Yankees' roster isn't fundamentally different.  It's a store-bought team.
They're just going back after the fact and saying, hey, look, the key was really skill, not a tilted playing field.
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But right.  Everybody except the Yankees needs a nucleus of cost-effective players, to which they add talent as needed.  Sandy has emphasized this.  Very tough to Pat Gillick a winning roster without half of it coming out of your own minors.