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How Joe Girardi Has Become a Better Yankees Manager Without His Superstars

class="ui-droppable">Through the first 33 games of the 2013 season, the New York Yankees are defying predictions and poor expectations. When they take the field on Friday night in Kansas City, they'll do so as a first-place club.

At 20-13, New York is playing .608 baseball.

While much of the credit in New York has gone to general manager Brian Cashman's ability to find contributors on the scrap heap over the winter and into spring training, it's been manager Joe Girardi who has gotten the most out of those players.

The 2006 Manager of the Year arrived in New York for the 2008 season, taking over a franchise that hadn't missed the postseason since prior to the 1994 strike. If replacing a legend like Joe Torre wasn't hard ...

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