Best All-Time Yankees Team

[DoubleX]

Which Yankees team do you think was the all-time best? I've only included the 26 WS Champions plus an other option (perhaps you feel that one of the pennant winning teams was better but unfortunate in the WS). In parentheses are each team's record and winning percentange.

EDIT: I've added the managers of the respective teams in. Not sure why, other than I thought it would be interesting.

[soberdennis]

I wish I could vote a tie between the 27 and 98 versions. I think it is that close. I voted for the 98 team because of their lack of certain HOFers and that they proved that Baseball was a team game.

One note-Stengel's best team is not listed at all. Of course that was a team that didn't even win the pennant at all, finishing second to the Indians in 54.

[DoubleX]

Some other notable Yankees teams:

Pennant Winners
1921 (98-55; .641) - Miller Huggins
1922 (94-60; .610) - Miller Huggins
1926 (91-63; .591) - Miller Huggins
1942 (103-51; .669) - Joe McCarthy
1955 (96-58; .623) - Casey Stengel
1957 (98-56; .636) - Casey Stengel
1960 (97-57; .630) - Casey Stengel
1963 (104-57; .646) - Ralph Houk
1964 (99-63; .611) - Yogi Berra
1976 (97-62; .610) - Billy Martin
1981 (59-48; .551) - Gene Michael, Bob Lemon
2001 (95-65; .594) - Joe Torre
2003 (101-61; .623) - Joe Torre

Division Winning Teams
1980 (103-59; .636) - Dick Howser
1994 (70-43; .619) - Buck Showalter
2002 (103-58; .640) - Joe Torre
2004 (101-61; .623) - Joe Torre
2005 (95-67; .586) - Joe Torre

Wild Card Teams
1995 (79-65; .549; Wild Card) - Buck Showalter
1997 (96-66; .593; Wild Card) - Joe Torre

Second Place Teams
1904 (92-59; .609; 1.5 GB) - Clark Griffith
1906 (90-61; .596; 3.0 GB) - Clark Griffith
1910 (88-63; .583; 14.5 GB) - Hal Chase, George Stallings
1924 (89-63; .586; 2.0 GB) - Miller Huggins
1929 (88-66; .571; 18.0 GB) - Miller Huggins
1931 (94-59; .614; 13.5 GB) - Joe McCarthy
1933 (91-59; .607; 7.0 GB) - Joe McCarthy
1934 (94-60; .610; 7.0 GB) - Joe McCarthy
1935 (89-60; .597; 3.0 GB) - Joe McCarthy
1954 (103-51; .669; 8.0 GB) - Casey Stengel
1970 (93-69; .574; 15.0 GB) - Ralph Houk
1974 (89-73; .549; 2.0 GB) - Bill Virdon
1985 (97-64; .602; 2.0 GB) - Yogi Berra, Billy Martin
1986 (90-72; .556; 5.5 GB) - Lou Piniella
1993 (88-74; .543; 7.0 GB) - Buck Showalter

Other 90+ Win Teams
1920 (95-59; .617; 3rd; 3.0 GB) - Miller Huggins
1948 (94-60; .610; 3rd; 2.5 GB) - Bucky Harris
1983 (91-71; .562; 3rd; 7.0 GB) - Billy Martin

[DoubleX]

One note-Stengel's best team is not listed at all. Of course that was a team that didn't even win the pennant at all, finishing second to the Indians in 54.

That team is the primary reason that we have the "other" option. I did note that team, among many others, in my second post.

[mikesty]

OK, I voted '98 Yankees because A: Most franchise wins and B: Means a lot to me, personally (wonder why...).

Yet, the 1927 seems interesting, so here are the lineups from BaseballLibrary.com:

1927 Lineup
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/features/topteams/1927yankees.stm

CF Earle Combs
.356, 6 HR, 64 RBI, 231 H
SS Mark Koenig
.285, 3 HR, 62 RBI
RF Babe Ruth
.356, 60 HR, 164 RBI
1B Lou Gehrig
.373, 47 HR, 175 RBI
LF Bob Meusel
.337, 8 HR, 103 RBI, 47 2B
2B Tony Lazzeri
.309, 18 HR, 102 RBI
3B Joe Dugan
.269, 2 HR, 43 RBI
C Pat Collins
.275, 7 HR, 36 RBI

ROTATION
Waite Hoyt
22-7, 2.64 ERA, 23 CG
Herb Pennock
19-8, 3.00 ERA, 210 IP
Urban Shocker
18-6, 2.84 ERA, 200 IP
Dutch Ruether
13-6, 3.38 ERA
George Pipgras
10-3, 4.12 ERA

BULLPEN
Wilcy Moore
19-7, 2.28 ERA, 13 SV
Myles Thomas
7-4, 4.85 ERA
Bob Shawkey

1998 Yankees:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/features/topteams/1998yankees.stm

LINEUP

2B Chuck Knoblauch
.265, 17 HR, 64 RBI, 31 SB

SS Derek Jeter
.324, 19 HR, 84 RBI, 30 SB

RF Paul O'Neill
.317, 24 HR, 116 RBI

CF Bernie Williams
.339, 26 HR, 97 RBI

1B Tino Martinez
.281, 28 HR, 123 RBI

DH Darryl Strawberry
.247, 24 HR, 57 RBI

C Jorge Posada
.268, 17 HR, 63 RBI

3B Scott Brosius
.300, 19 HR, 98 RBI

LF Chad Curtis
.243, 10 HR, 56 RBI, 21 SB

ROTATION

David Wells
18-4, 3.49 ERA, 214 IP
David Cone
20-7, 3.55 ERA, 208 IP
Andy Pettitte
16-11, 4.24 ERA, 216 IP
Orlando Hernandez
12-4, 3.13 ERA
Hideki Irabu
13-9, 4.06 ERA

BULLPEN

Mariano Rivera
3-0, 1.91 ERA, 36 SV
Ramiro Mendoza
10-2, 3.25 ERA
Mike Stanton
4-1, 5.47 ERA, 6 SV
Jeff Nelson
5-3, 3.79 ERA, 3 SV
Graeme Lloyd
3-0, 1.67 ERA

Now let's compare reserves:

1927 Notable Reserves -

C Johnny Grabowski
.277, 0 HR, 25 RBI
2B Ray Morehart
.256, 1 HR, 20 RBI

1998 Notable Reserves -

C Joe Girardi
.276, 3 HR, 57 RBI

LF Shane Spencer
.373, 10 HR, 27 RBI

OF Tim Raines
.290, 5 HR, 47 RBI

2B Homer Bush
.380, 1 HR, 5 RBI

Alright, I have some stuff to take care of, but I did this so you guys can check some stats and compare this and that. As you were :)

[bluejaysfan4ever]

1998 was the best.

[Mariano_Rivera]

I had to go with Murderers Row

[DoubleX]

It's very hard to argue against any team that features Ruth and Gehrig. The '98 Yankees are impressive because they did it in the modern era with expanded playoffs. However, the one team that might be the best, IMO, is the 1961 Yankees. I haven't voted yet, but it's coming down to those three.

[Murderer's Row]

I'll go with Murderer's Row. It's really hard to argue with Ruth and Gehrig.