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As we come to the end of the 2010s, it’s time to pick the Team of the Decade

Let’s start with first principles: You play to win championships. (Sorry, Herm Edwards.) That doesn’t mean you only count the rings, but those rings will go a long way toward the answer. The Yankees in the 1900s weren’t the Team of the Century because they had a .567 winning percentage, best in baseball; they were the Team of the Century because they won 26 World Series.

So we begin with apologies to those Yankees, who not

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