...actually, I think it's only $22 Mil...just sayin'. ...but if they ad Tanaka and Young, I'm golden.
I think MLB wimped out a but I'd hoped they'd go the full 211 course but a huge step, what's done is done, now finish up the business of rebuilding the team.
Yanks save 24.1 million on a-rod 2014 salary and owe him 61 mill for 2015-17. Any of you cap guys out there have any idea what yanks salary total is now and can they possibly be under the 189 mill mark and still sign tanaka for around 20 mill or so?
It wasn't up to baseball. The arbitrator reduced the suspension to 162. The other number was arbitrary and made no sense anyway
well, it wasn't totally arbitrary--iirc it was for the rest of last season and this season. His appeal allowed him to play the first 49 games...
...edit; that figure obviously does not take into consideration the extra $6 Mil he would get for passing Mays on the HR list. (he's only 6 away)
It was the $25M (or $24.1M depending on the source) plus $6M for the HR milestone of Mays which he would have done this year...
...hammer, I can't remember the exact figures, but I read/heard that there's a difference between his actual salary vs what portion would be applied to the lux tax cap...it has something to do with 162 games vs the way he is actually paid during a calendar year which includes off days.
Not counting the 6M (passing Mays) He was due 25M for the 2014 season. To my understanding he gets only approx 3M of that. I forget why. But hey, the Yankees should be able to do a lot with 22M.
What about the remaining $61M for 2015-17? What about salary paid to him during the time he was a Biogenesis customer?
Yanks need to arrange discounted buyout from him or take him to court and sue him for all his transgressions and if that court case occurs I believe they can get horowitz's decision unsealed and word is there's so much bad stuff on a-rod in there he would settle rather quickly. He has been basically all bluster with no substance from the start and the only happy people in his camp are his blood sucking lawyers as their all laughing their asses all the way to the bank.
Is it possible for the Yanks to get under the 189 mil if they sign Tanaka? That would be just dandy! Then, starting in 2015, they can further aggravate Mike (the weasel) Lupica and the other asswholes by spending more money. GO YANKS ---> get their blood pressure up. lol
If they get Tanaka, they will spend more in my opinion because they will feel they have a better team with Tanaka. I bet they sign Balfour and who knows maybe Arroyo or another starter.
