With Holliday, Yanks playing the Teixeira game

From Gordon Eddes (ESPN):

And while the economic landscape has changed markedly since then, the elite players have still gotten theirs. That’s why the Red Sox, while considering Matt Holliday as a potential alternative if Bay goes elsewhere, are anticipating the Holliday shopping will ultimately prove too rich for their blood. And yes, they suspect the Yankees will be laying in the weeds for Holliday, too, just as they did with another Scott Boras client, Mark Teixeira, last winter.

In Nick Cafardo’s piece on Sunday, he echoed Geddes’ comment regarding the Yankees’ approach to free agency this winter, noting that the club likes “to lie back, out of the line of fire, for a while and then get in.” Therefore, though a number of reports have stated that the Yankees are not actually interested in Matt Holliday, specifically, I wouldn’t be surprised if such articles were nothing more than disinformation, meant to throw off competitors, agents and expectations. The same occurred once Mark Teixeira entered free agency as Brian Cashman made it seem as though the Yankees couldn’t add Teixeira due to financial practicality (the addition of Nick Swisher also cloaked their interest).

It’s basically impossible to count the Yankees out until the aforementioned player (e.g., Holliday) is signed.

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