With the Giants victory parade in the books, its time to concentrate on the MLB off season. Free agency gets started early this year with teams being able to contact FA's on 12:01am Sunday morning. Like always the FA period will begin with everyone looking to the Bronx to see what the Yankees are up to. Then everything will fall into place from there.
Here is a good article from the NY Daily News about the Yankees recent woes in FA signings and how they plan to approach free agency this off season. Including Cliff Lee, Mariano Rivera, and Derek Jeter.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba..._for_arms.html
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Here was Brian Cashman the other day before flying down to Tampa and finding out what his allowance from the Boss Brothers will be this winter:
"I think that if the pitching can be shored up it will be to our best interest."
"Shored up" in this case likely means overpaying Lee, who turns 33 in August, and became the most over-evaluated pitcher in history during the postseason that just ended. When it comes to the Yankees, "shored up" always means throwing big money at somebody else's best pitchers. And going back to 1995, it has put them in the postseason every year except one, so in that sense, it's working for them.
But in the last 10 years - as shored up as they've been - they've won the same amount of World Series as the Angels, Marlins, White Sox, Cardinals, Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
I said to someone in the Yankee organization on Tuesday: "Wait a second: You have to shore up the pitching two years after you signed Sabathia and Burnett for nearly a quarter of a billion?"
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