Payroll insurance is pretty much standard practice nowadays, especially with bigger contracts like Cole's...and yes, an injured player's salary still counts against the salary cap.
It didn't cost any assets except for money and the yanks print it. And payroll reduced by about 50 mill plus will make some kind of trade to move happy and a lot of his money. Yanks young pitching about 2 to 3 tears away. And if anybody thinks cole i opting out at are 33 (hell pitch at age 29) this season risking 34 mill a year or so I have a bridge to sell you. Houston's bunch of cheaters are now in our rear view mirror.
Strasburg could significantly beat the 25 mill he was making. Tanaka couldn't with the elbow issue and cole at 33 won't be able to beat 36 at that point. Yanks are pretty much loaded everywhere and while they have enough assets to make trades I can't think of what they would trade for although rumors I heard about lindor might be interesting
these days it only makes sense to have "opt-out" clauses, as rapid as contracts have escalated in a very short time.
Yeah, if we get 5 years out of Cole it will probably his most productive years...and if he opts out and someone wants to give him $40 Mil a year for his years after he's 35 they will be doing us a favor because under his current deal with the Yanx I gotta believe that the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th years could very well be ugly...almost ARod/Ellsbury ugly.
Gotta admit I got a little misty when he held up that sign he took to the ballpark with him as a kid.
