Via the AP -
“The young pitchers at the beginning of year,” [Hal Steinbrenner] said, “it was upsetting at times. It wasn’t what we thought. It didn’t go exactly the way we thought it would go. But, you know, that’s the way it is. We’re highly confident in Kennedy and Hughes and that they’re going to come back strong when they do come back.”
“This is New York, and the fans deserve a team with marquee players,” Steinbrenner said. “Where we want to end up is a tremendous mix of young talent and veterans. And the veterans, the free agents, they cost money. And we realize that. We are going to have a lot of money come off the payroll, and that’s going to give us some options. But believe me, we’re going to use a good portion of it to get this city the team it deserves.”
Duly noted Hal.
Now, let’s see it happen.
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July 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Seems that there are a lot of question marks coming into this offseason WRT free agents…
http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2002/02/2008-09-free-agents.html
July 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Give the Yankees this – and this is something that other teams across the world face – that they will almost always field a competitive team. With the exception of the 1980s and early 1990s the Yankees have fielded a consistent competitive team. The team isn’t focused on just making money or existing (Pirates and Royals I’m looking at you) but actually winning.
Yankees haters will always hate the Yankees for their payroll and their history – but without the Yankees what would baseball be like? Also – those other teams get a nice check from the Yankees through revenue sharing.