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Originally Posted by Tom the Fish
The Yankees have proven that all you need to do for a team that missed the playoffs for a year is go spend money on the top three free agents. Problem solved.
Of course, if any of them turn out a bust, well, you can always buy more next year. Why can't the other teams see this?
So glad I can follow NPB now. Go Fighters!
Tom
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You do realize that the Yanks payroll went down from 2008, right? They didn't simply go out and buy new players, they had guys whose contracts expired who were then replaced by other players, or guys that were resigned but at a lower salary.
Teixera($20M) replaced Giambi($23M)
AJ($16M) replaced Abreu($16M)
CC($15M) replaced Moose($11M) + Farnsworth($6M)
we also subtracted guys like Pavano($11M) and Hawkins($4M) and resigned Pettite for $10M less than his '08 salary while adding guys like Swish($5M) and increasing salaries of guys like Cano and Wang.
Would it have made you happier if rather than the yanks cutting their payroll by $8M they cut it by 20 and rather than getting AJ and CC brought in second tier starters like Oliver Perez, Derek Lowe, Jon Garland, or Ryan Dempster to replace the departure of Moose, uncertainty regarding Pettite(didn't resign until late into the offseason) and Wang(turned out that he hadn't fully recovered from the ankle injury)
Bottom line is, the yankees had significant salary coming off the books, had some large wholes open from those departures, and filled them with guys that at least so far look to have been solid signings.