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Mariano Rivera Injury Won’t Affect the New York Yankees in the Slightest

in Yankee Nation is fretting right now over the knee injury sustained by Mariano Rivera.

What will New York do? Who will replace the best closer of all time? Can the Yankees survive this setback?

Seeing a future Hall of Fame player go down with a season-ending injury is never a good thing. But if you have to lose a piece of your puzzle, this is the one any team can afford to lose with the minimum amount of concern.

The simple reality of baseball is this: closers don't matter.

Throughout baseball history, a team entering the ninth inning with the lead will win 95 percent of the time. This stat has remained completely unchanged from the days of three-man rotations and 500-inning workloads to today's highly ...

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