Congrats Yanks, you now have the 5 highest paid AL players

[aminors]

It's going to be so enjoyable watching the yankees once again not win a world series, regardless of how much money they spend...

Enjoy choking on those words in October!

+1
go pinstripes.


Anthony

 

[JVC]

Who cares?

when you look at who they are signing and who retired.. they are just replacing players that retired for the most part..

As in most succesful businesses, you have to spend money to make money...

Depends on your definition of success here. Making money or winning championships?

If the last 15 years is any indication of their success they have done fine.

Those are arbitrary numbers. What about the last 8 years? What about when their payroll hit $200 mil? $250 mil?

 

[DetroitTigers]

It's going to be so enjoyable watching the yankees once again not win a world series, regardless of how much money they spend...

Enjoy choking on those words in October!

Are you actually going to go around cheering that the Yankees won, what is Burnett going to say "We came so far being out of the playoffs last year and come all the way to the World Series, anything can happen". It won't be a earned great season if the Yankees have one but when someone like the Rays come that far that is something to watch.

 

[rymflaherty]

Obviously i am aware that the money they have spent is spread out over numerous seasons. That still does not change that they have committed over 400 million dollars or whatever it is to 3 players in one off-season - and i put it closer to half a billion dollars because who knows what else they may do.

To me that is a bit excessive and ridiculous, I realize others may not think that and that's fine and that's your opinion. The thing i keep coming back to is that I am a Red Sox fan, and a fan of a team with a high payroll and it still seems excessive, so i can only imagine how fans of other teams feel and i just don't see how this is good for baseball - other than it seems that next year they'll be two types of baseball fans - Yankees fans and everyone else that wants to see them lose.

 

[DetroitTigers]

Obviously i am aware that the money they have spent is spread out over numerous seasons. That still does not change that they have committed over 400 million dollars or whatever it is to 3 players in one off-season - and i put it closer to half a billion dollars because who knows what else they may do.

To me that is a bit excessive and ridiculous, I realize others may not think that and that's fine and that's your opinion. The thing i keep coming back to is that I am a Red Sox fan, and a fan of a team with a high payroll and it still seems excessive, so i can only imagine how fans of other teams feel and i just don't see how this is good for baseball - other than it seems that next year they'll be two types of baseball fans - Yankees fans and everyone else that wants to see them lose.

That is what type of baseball fan I will be.