Yanks To GM: Get It Done For Less Than Last Year
Is it just me, or, do the Yankees lead the league in “unnamed team sources”?
Via Marc Carig –
The Yankees wrapped up their organizational meetings on Friday afternoon, allowing general manager Brian Cashman to focus his attention on filling his team’s holes heading into baseball’s winter meetings.
“I’ve got a set budget now,” Cashman said. “Now we’re in position to start engaging in the trade and free agent market and trying to put the 2010 team together, to see where it takes us.”
Cashman offered few details and refused to comment about how much money he’ll have to work with.
But a team source said on Friday that the team will lower its spending from the approximately $206 million spent on payroll this season, a reduction that had been expected. However, the source declined to offer more details.
The Yankees do have about $40 million coming off their payroll this off-season. But, they’re going to have to replace Damon and Pettitte, at the least, and that should cost around $20 million with somewhat cheap replacements. This could be an interesting winter meetings…or not…in Yankeeland.
trading for Meche and Dejesus doesn’t get the Yanks payroll any cheaper.
For years it was written Big Stein was the “source” of a lot of Yankee rumors.
You know that putting rumors out there through the media is like free market research to gauge the fans’ reaction, so none of this surprises me.
If they’re going on the cheap, it probably means the Yanks will finally sign Mike Cameron.
I’m going to say it’s going to be boring during the winter meetings for Yankee fans. I’d expect the only two possible deals in the next week are going to be resigning Pettitte and Damon. Unless that’s what you call exciting. I guess in some ways it is.