Why Do Yankees Always Get The Best Deals?

[Clay Dreslough]

Yankees sign Mike Mussina for 6 years at $14.75 million.
Rangers are close to signing Chan Ho Park for 7 years at $15 million.

Despite Mussina's age, I think the Yankees got the better deal.

Red Sox sign Manny Ramirez for 8 years at $20 million.
Yankees are close to signing Jason Giambi for 7 years at about $17 million.

Again, I think the Yankees got the better deal.

Not only do they have the most money to spend. They spend it better.

I hate them.

Clay

[Frost]

Look at it this way. If you are a free agent, would you play for some ****/suck team for 10 million a year, or would you play for the yankees (guarenteeing playoffs and probably world series) for a little less, say 8 or 9 million. Plus the yankees are a well run, very professional no nonsense organization, and their GM's have been good. They got Paul O'neill straight up for roberto kelly, signed mussina for like 4 million less than mike hampton, traded david wells straight up for clemens, etc. Also, Steinbrenner is not greedy. He makes alot of money with the yankees but he puts much of the money back into the team.

[mbpelicns]

Hi
I think the Yankees always get the greatest deals because they have one of the biggest budgets in baseball so they have more options to buy :)

[Frost]

true, but you can't deny they make some of the smartest deals in baseball. Even though they have the most money, they don't just throw enormous sums of money at people. They spend it the smartest

[ramsfan125]

The Yankees refuse to lose. They barely lost the 2001 World Series, and now they go out and get big namers Jason Giambi, Robin Ventura, Rondell White, and John Vander Wal, while promptly losing the only reasonable Yankees, Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius, David Justice, and Paul O'Neill. Sadly, those 4 I just mentioned were also big name players before settling to the Yankees. It's sad, because we can't blame Steinbrenner being rich, because he's got average money for an owner, but guys like Carl Pohlad and Peter Angelos just to name a couple don't spend the money.
I'm a Cardinals fan, and they also get lots of free agents, but it's not usually the biggest name out there. They usually take average guys like Fernando Vina and Edgar Renteria (through trades) and turn them to be very good.
I just thank god that the Yankees don't always get the better end of their moves (they traded a great young pitcher Eric Milton, who DID pitch a no-hitter, and Twins shortstop Christian Guzman for Chuck Knoblauch). But this is my only example, so I just better move on and hope the Cardinals win the Series over the Yankees (or Atlanta, Cincy, Arizona, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, anybody can beat them).

[Redcorn]

who wouldnt want to play for new york? new york is one of the greatest places in the whole world. they will always be a great team.

[DodgersGM]

Originally posted by Redcorn
they will always be a great team.

You obviously weren't around in the late 80's/early 90's. I don't ever want to go back to the Andy Hawkins, Dave Lapoint, Hensley Muelens, Wayne Tolleson days.

DGM

[ramsfan125]

Don't even bring up some of those other guys, the big-named stars. Danny Tartabull and Ken Phelps (now known more for his reference on Seinfeld than his playing) come to mind. Donnie Baseball was pretty good, but sometimes the Yankees just sucked. I blame the inconsistent managing (as in having 20 billion of them, including Billy Martin god-knows-how-many times). Those were the days!

[Frost]

you forgot superstar Kevin Maas (one year wonder) and Jesse Barfield. Barfield really had an awesome cannon from right field though. and to think that some referred to Kevin Maas as "The Natural" at one time.

[ramsfan125]

Originally posted by Frost
you forgot superstar Kevin Maas (one year wonder) and Jesse Barfield. Barfield really had an awesome cannon from right field though. and to think that some referred to Kevin Maas as "The Natural" at one time.


This is fun talking about the 1980's Yankees. Nobody likes the bought team filled with superstars in the 1990's and 21st century, so let's talk about the 1980's bought god-awful team. I wasn't a baseball fan until around 1996, so I missed out on this beautiful Yankees era. Let's talk about the Andy Hawkins 4-0 loss no hitter. Sorry, I'm trying to be an optimistic person.