The Red Sox winning the series was the best thing for the folks who want this team to make moves. There's no way the Yankees sit back and put another substandard product on the field next year. The catching situation alone last year was an absolute disgrace.
More likely than not, your are correct. They may miss out on some guys they want as they wait around for Cano and for the A-rod situation to be sorted out to determine thier actual budget though. Also there is the whole idiot GM problem....
Baseball as usual has handled the Arod situation incorrectly. This will now drag out for a long time in the courts and in my opinion they will have no choice but to allow him to play this upcoming season.
I agree regarding Cano, but wrt A-Rod, I think you have to assume he's out next year and plan accordingly... if they don't do that, they are beyond ill-equipped to lead/run a team
..."courts" in general, don't typically like to take on an appeal once an arbitrator has made a ruling one way or the other. I mean, that's why both sides agree to let the arbiter decide on an argument in the first place. MLB and the MLBPA have both agreed to this platform as a way to solve differences rather than spending so much time and money on the US judicial system in a court of law. ...now, ARod's bogus lawsuit vs MLB is a completely different and separate matter entirely.
The length of suspension has absolutely no basis within the collective bargaining agreement so I don't blame Arod for appealing. As for his treatment compared to others that's what his lawyers are attacking.
Regardless of outcome still don't see the yankees doing anything when all is finally said and done but writing a-fraud a check for what they owe him minus whatever suspension he ends up getting and telling him to go take a fucking hike. No one else is signing him ala bonds once yankees act
