LOL At The Yankees.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by BringBackJoeT

To be honest, I actually was hoping Lee would in fact sign with the Yankees, if only because I'm just not convinced that he is worth the market run that was made for him. The Yankees are already committed to paying a shocking amount of money for their 30-and-over roster members, including $50 million alone for each of the next three years to Jeter and Rodriguez, both of whom are coming off years in which their age clearly began to show (I realize A-Rod drove in 120+, but his .270/30 HR total in 2010 were low for him and not exactly what you'd expect for $30 million). With a possible Lee signing, I thought that maybe the Yankees might actually be beginning to push the outer limits of their spending ability, and, again, I wasn't really convinced that Lee was all that. I realize this is probably a minority opinion, but I think the Phillies may have done the Yankees a favor here.

as an Os fan i was thinking kinda like you too. the Os are going to try and become contenders 2 years from now when our young talent (weiters, jones, matusz, arieta, tillman) hopefully become elite talent. right now we need to save money b/c alot of these guys are going to become eligible for arbitration/new ks in the next few years. on top of that, we will be making a huge contract offer to a FA elite bat in 2 years.

but back to the yanks, if they had signed lee to that 7 yr deal that would have meant, given his salary, etc., that lee would be still be their no 2 (unless hughes continues to progress) 2 years from now, but he would be an old, less effective no 2 or 3. i guess what im saying is they would be less likely to add additional revenue to the starting pitching or to upgrade since they have huge contracts to lee and CC on the books. even the yanks cant have 3 huge no 1 starter contracts on the books, so 2 years from now they would be left to ride out the remainder of CC and lees contracts before they could purge another team for the next great FA pitcher.