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Originally Posted by yankeesrule
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.
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heh, Moose is my cousin. He;s happy to be outta baseball finally. **** wears on a guy. Plus, the greed of the owners is too incredible. The higher the payrolls have to be in baseball, the better. Money should be circulating to the players and coaches, who do all the work. Give baseball a salary cap, and your only making the owners richer. How's that good for baseball? Not very, when the rich just get richer.