A creative way of handling the Yankees’ payroll problem

By On December 30, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Business of Baseball

Much digital ink has been spilled about the Yankees’ 2014 payroll, and their possible goal of getting below the $189 million luxury tax threshold to greatly reduce their luxury tax and revenue sharing obligations.  In order to get their payroll below that threshold for 2011, the Yankees would likely have to employ some measure of [...]

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Yankees bring back Jones

By On December 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Hot Stove

As expected, the Yankees have reached an agreement with Andruw Jones to come back for another ride in the Bronx. has the details:

Andruw jones, yankees in agreement. $2M base plus incentives

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Jones’ incentives are about $1.4M. Deal is pending physical

Awesome. Welcome back, Andruw. Here’s to mashing more lefties! [...]

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A More Comprehensive Matt Garza Post

By On December 30, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Trade Musings

I’ve said it a lot that I’m not a big fan of . I don’t think he’s a bad pitcher or anything, but I don’t necessarily think he’s as good as made out to be right now, especially after a stellar 2011 that saw him put up 5.0 fWAR for the Cubbies. [...]

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