With budget set, Cashman ready to deal
From Marc Carig (Star-Ledger):
The Yankees wrapped up their organizational meetings on Friday afternoon, allowing general manager Brian Cashman to focus his attention on filling his team’s holes heading into baseball’s winter meetings.”I’ve got a set budget now,” Cashman said. “Now we’re in position to start engaging in the trade and free agent market and trying to put the 2010 together, to see where it takes us.”
Cashman offered few details and refused to comment about how much money he’ll have to work with.
But a team source said on Friday that the team will lower its spending from the approximately $206 million spent on payroll this season, a reduction that had been expected. However, the source declined to offer more details.
In terms of lowering the payroll, don’t the Yankees say they’re going to do that every year?
Sure, they lowered it a bit in 2009, but they did so by only 7.5 million (that’s chump change).
Anyway, Brian Cashman is finally off of his budgetary leash. Go get em, Cash.
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They can always “borrow” from next year’s budget if they feel they have someone they need to acquire to put them over the top. For instance, if they found out Holliday was suddenly available for 5 years $75M but only had $7M left in their budget for this season, they certainly wouldn’t let that stop them.
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