#4) 2009: The Yankees Win Their 27th World Championship
After beginning the decade with their fourth championship in five years, the Yankees have continued to annually far outspend any other major league baseball team. They spent well over a billion and a half dollars without another title -– until this season. George Steinbrenner’s health caused him stepped to the background with running things and the Joe Torre era ended during the decade, but in 2009, the extra additions of C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and Mark Texeira helped the Yankees get back on top, and christen the new Yankee Stadium with another championship. It was actually a mainstay from earlier in the decade though, who helped the Bronx Bombers capture their 27th world title more than any other Yankee, and he did it all with his bat. Mastsui hit .615 (8-for-13), with three home runs, eight runs batted in, and three runs scored to become the player to win a World Series MVP as a full-time designated hitter, as the Yankees closed the decade the same way they opened it –- with a world championship, paying the ultimate tribute to Joe Girardi’s Yankee uniform number 27.