No Maas recently analyzed the Yankees' finances and concluded that the Yankees are cheap. That post and its followup make a compelling case that the Yankee front office is merely giving lip service to the team mission statement of doing what it takes to win every year.
Either No Mass is absolutely correct about this, or Joel Sherman is just making shit up when he says the "Yankees claim they have just a small amount of money left to spend this offseason."
The Yankees can only afford to get a decent lefty bat if they pawn off most of A.J. Burnett's contract on some other team - yeah, right. Sure. If you believe that, here is some breaking news: A-Rod told the Yankees that his monthly gym fee was killing him, so he could not afford to work out this offseason unless the team agreed to pay 75.76% of his alimony payments.
A-Rod is an expensive player.
ReplyDeleteAlex Rodriguez's should not drag the Yankees management on his problem on his alimony payments. As a professional athlete, he should be in charge on how to keep his body fit no matter how expensive it is.
ReplyDeleteThe alimony stuff was a sarcasm intended to rank on the Yankees. The 75.76% number came from the Yankees' absurd claim that they could only afford Eric Chavez if they could pawn A.J. Burnett off on someone who would pay $25 million of the remaining $33 million (75.76%) of Burnett's remaining contract.
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