Category: Yankees Luxury Tax
Yankees: How To Spend Or Hoard $63 Million In “Surplus” Payroll In 2021
Yankees GM Brian Cashman has his marching orders from his boss – no luxury tax this year! Still, there’s room to add talent – but…
Yankees: Stop it with this non-sensible Nolan Arenado trade thing
The Yankees are in familiar territory. With no other news, the press throws a high-profile name out there, connects the Yankees, to see if it…
Yankees: Party’s over, it’s time to turn attention to contract extensions
The Yankees have already blown past the luxury tax threshold for 2020. Next year promises to be the same or worse unless contract extensions are…
Yankees: What must it feel like to be J.A. Happ these days
The Yankees have a poorly kept secret; they’d rather not have J.A. Happ and his $17 million for the 2020 season. Wonder what’s going through…
Yankees: Already $50 million past the threshold – Luxury Tax be damned
The Yankees, if the tax were due today, would owe MLB a cool $22 million for blowing by the luxury tax threshold. Coming up –…
Yankees: Montgomery in rotation leaves German and Happ with no job
The Yankees rotation has one spot open. The job appears to be Jordan Montgomery’s to lose, meaning Domingo German and J.A. Happ have no place…
Yankees: The United States of Baseball – Don’t mess with the gentle giant.
The Yankees reminded everyone they are the United States of baseball. Curiously, even with unmatched resources, their power is only sparingly unleashed… At times, the…
Yankees: Sorry, we’re closed for the season. The Taxman waits for his cut.
The Yankees, with the signing of Brett Gardner, will close the books on payroll additions for the 2020 season. With the Taxman looming, they’ve done enough……
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
