![]() ![]() And it remains possible they will add a piece or two - perhaps more pitching and another outfield option who can play center. In conjunction with Rizzo, the Yankees project to about a $256 million payroll for luxury-tax purposes. The cost to access Kiner-Falefa and defense-first catcher Ben Rortvedt was to add the two years at $50 million owed to Josh Donaldson. He too was a free agent.īut the Yankees’ trade for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and their reunion with Anthony Rizzo definitively took them out of the markets for Carlos Correa or Trevor Story or Freeman. And Freddie Freeman pretty much defined everything the Yankees needed in a first baseman - superb on both sides of the ball, a lefty hitter with power, average and limited strikeouts plus a proven postseason performer. And this was the most star-studded free-agent shortstop class in history. The Yankees began the offseason with needs at shortstop and first base. Such is life in the shadows of the old Boss (George Steinbrenner) and the new one (Steve Cohen). ![]() Can you be misers with a payroll beyond $250 million? Yet, they are besieged by a perception of frugality. They are about to begin a season with their highest payroll ever both in dollars allocated and for luxury-tax purposes - and not by a few cents. LUCIE - The Yankees are in this strange universe. Mets' likely 2024 approach comes with 2025 escape plan Yankees' years of failed moves, arrogance came to head at lackluster trade deadline The hidden additions who could transform baseball's playoff races Yankees' failure to learn needed lessons behind ongoing decline How the Yankees might navigate Luis Severino's plummet - now and in the offseason ![]()
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