Also, the Rays are going nowhere fast in an incredibly tough division. This makes sense for a whole host of reasons.

No, they’re not. Look, the narrative of the Yankees buying championships is a) nonsense, and always has been nonsense, since baseball is too probabilistic for the richest team to always win (see: LA Dodgers 2017), and b) old news since the Yankees haven’t been spend-crazy in quite awhile (ok, there was 2008, but when…

And the Dodgers. The Yankees haven’t had the highest opening day payroll since 2013.

They need a salary floor more than a cap.

And yet...they probably won’t be. So no sympathy.

I don’t know man. They’ve got a pretty good thing going with the luxury tax. Look at the bad teams in the NFL with the hard cap. The Browns, Titans, Bills, Jets, Jaguars (not this year, but you know what I mean). You’re looking at teams who suck for decades at a time. Basketball has franchises that will never get…

They are under the cap. And because these salaries are counted against the cap as AAV instead of a one to one of what they’re earning, of the $27.5M the Yankees are paying him, only $22M goes against the cap (The $30M the Marlins kicked in lowers it from $25M). They are walking away from this deal pretty painlessly.

The Yankees haven’t had the highest MLB payroll in years. Hell, the Dodgers 2015 payroll was $70 million higher than the Yankees 2017 payroll. Right now it seems the Yankees will be no higher than fourth in 2018 (behind the Dodgers, Red Sox, and Tigers) and it’s possible, though unlikely, that their payroll will be as…

Oh geez you’re right. I’m going to start rooting for the Padres now. Thanks.

So mad you posted it three times.

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH

I mean, this was all the workings of the Yankees GM, and if he hadn’t constructed a competetor through trades and building up the farm system Stanton likely wouldn’t have wanted to go there. The rest is negotiation and being willing to spend some money, which other teams have just don’t spend on talent (outside of a…

Yeah, he was great for the first half but he fell off a cliff towards the end of the season.

Yankees have won 1 championship in 17 years. For Christ sake the Marlins have done that. How are they uncontrollable?

It’s the we don’t care part.

I for one welcome my new dong smashing overlord.

That isn’t how machines work. According to your definition, a bicycle would have no moving parts because your feet supply the force.

You said Sev was destined for a relief career. Not true: he was a top starter in the minors, and when he came up in the second half of 2015 he started 11 games to a sub-3 ERA. That’s pretty good! And that’s why fans were all excited about him being a rotation regular last season...but he was abysmal, to everyone’s…

The Yankees had the 2nd best run differential in all of baseball this year. And that was despite having several key offensive players miss significant time. Plus they undoubtedly improved at the trade deadline.

Your pitching analysis is pretty off the mark. Sev is the staff ace (and was destined to be; the relief stint and the shittiness beforehand were not planned), CC has been solid all season, and Tanaka turned it around in the second half.