Byline: JOSH DUBOW Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The extra week added to the season proved quite beneficial for the New York Yankees.
Had the playoffs started as scheduled last week, Joe Torre would have been scrambling to put out a healthy team.
Now, the Yankees enter their first-round series against Oakland as healthy as they've been in months and poised for a run at a fourth straight World Series title.
``We're in a lot better shape this week than last week at this time,'' Torre said Monday. ``The season went a week longer than it was supposed to, and that wasn't a good thing. We wouldn't have panicked if we started last week. But we were not in as good shape as we are now.'' …
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