They buy new players each year.
The Yankees made the playoffs 14 times from 1995 to the present, including 13 straight years (1995-2007). They missed the playoffs in 2008 and then won the World Series in 2009.
The Yankees made the playoffs a total of 14 times over the last 16 years, which excludes 1994 and 2008.
Over the last twenty years, the Yankees made the playoffs 17 times.1995-2007, 2009-2012
The Cowboys have missed the playoffs for three straight years - 2010-12. The Patriots last missed the playoffs in 2008.
St. Louis Blues
The most consecutive years the Dolphins made the playoffs is 5 and they have accomplished that three times.1970-1974, 1981-1985, and 1997-2001.
Seattle Mariners 2001 116-46 (regular season) or 1998 Yankees 125-50 including playoffs.
1985 New York Mets who went 98-64 and did not make the playoffs. Next was the 1985 New York Yankees who went 97-64 and then the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays at 96-66.
The last time the Yankees didn't make the playoffs was in 2013, when they finished in third place in the American League East. They also did not advance to the postseason in 2008, their final season in the original Yankee Stadium. And they certainly didn't fare very well during the years that Don Mattingly played for the team from 1982 to 1995. Mattingly never appeared in a playoff game until his final season with the Yankees.
7 years
Because Joe Torre is a good coach, but A-Rod chokes in the playoffs. But now New York has Joe Girardi and they can't win a game. In 2009, Joe Girardi and the rest of the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2, to win their 27th World Series Championship. Alex Rodriguez batted .365 with 6 HR and 18 RBI in the playoffs.
1950 to the Yankees got swept that year 1993 to the braves and this year to the Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees!