Yankees Sign Mark Teixeira

2009 Payroll Estimates:

C Posada $13.1
1B Teixeira ?? (avg $/yr = $22.5)
2B Cano $6
SS Jeter $20
3B Rodriguez $32

OF Damon $13
OF Matsui $13
OF Nady ?? (Likely $4+)
OF Cabrera ?? (Likely ~$1)

SP Sabathia $14
SP Wang $5
SP Burnett ??
SP Chamberlain ??
SP Hughes ??

RHP Rivera $15
LHP Marte $6
RHP Bruney ?? (Likely ~$1)

Bench
C Molina $1

Roughly $165 mil for less than half of the 40-man.

If anyone else has some figures please plug them in :)

C.C.'s making 23 mil not 14 and burnett will make 16.5 next year so that would bring your total close to 200 mil without adding the contracts of nady, melky and a couple relievers

Joel Sherman says the Yankees made this decision with the 2010 season in mind, given the weak free agent market. He says they'll now attempt to trade one of Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Xavier Nady, and Nick Swisher.

They're going to have to if they want to field a 25-man roster.

There sure are an awful lot of Yankee cheerleaders posting here that have NEVER seen before this topic post before. Could not be just coming from out of the termite infested wood work could you 3-4 would you now and being obnoxious with the Tex signing? Tone it down a bit please, some of the other Sox fans (not me) are upset at him joining ya and want to keep this topic civil.

Well, I admit I was wrong...if you recall I wrote that I had a contact with the O's & they were going to win the bidding for Tex. Well, here's what happened. My contact was basing this on the fact that the old man had given Andy MacFAIL the go-ahead to increase his offer but in the end, Andy decided it wasn't worth it, that they were still rebuilding and were better off spending elsewhere rather than pumping it all into one player. My source, who is also in the front office, does not agree with Andy and said he would have gone for Tex. Oh well, sorry for unintentionally misleading everyone.

wonder how this will effect boras' and the sox's relationship?

I am hearing its official the Yankees have traded Nick Swisher to the Atlanta Braves for JoJo Reyes, Brandon Jones, cash condieration, and a fill in prospect...

Posted by: mikelovesbaseball94 | December 23, 2008 at 03:26 PM

So would Jo-jo Reyes even make their AAA team?

Yankees:
JoJo Reyes SP
Brandon Jones OF
Chas Lundhal SS
Ferdin Tejada RP

Braves:
Nick Swisher 1B/OF

even better

Damon
Jeter
A Rod
Manny
Tex
Maysui
Posada
Cano
Nady

I really wish that baseball would bring in a Commish and gave him complete and total control to improve the game.

Every team should be on equal ground financially.

Hopefully every one of these players will be colossal bust so that the Yankees are stuck with immovable contracts for a bunch of mediocre players.

If ever team had the resources to have a 400 million dollar payroll and break even I'm sure they'd do whatever it took to win too.

This has been a horrible off season for anyone that is a fan of baseball.

In case anyone hasn't noticed, the Yankees are spending (assuming Teix's deal is 22.5M for every year, and not back-loaded) $105 Million next year on five players: A-Rod (32M), Jeter (20M), CC (14M), Burnett (16.5M), and Teix (22.5M).

That's more than the entire salary of the Atlanta Braves. And the Atlanta Braves aren't exactly a small market team. By 2010 it will be up to $115M as Jeter and CC reach the most expensive years of their deals.

They are ruining this sport. They are spending as much on five players now as they spent on their ENTIRE TEAM in 2000. There is something fundamentally wrong about that.

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C.C.'s making 23 mil not 14 and burnett will make 16.5 next year so that would bring your total close to 200 mil without adding the contracts of nady, melky and a couple relievers

Posted by: bwoah | December 23, 2008 at 03:35 PM "

Yes CC is making 14 his first year, unless you include that $9 mil thing before he even pitches with the 14, then it's 23

People sad the Yankees were ruining baseball in the 70's. Obviously, baseball is doing fine.

Posted by: EmpireStrkesBack | December 23, 2008 at 03:40 PM

baseball is only doing fine for some. Families can't go to see games anymore because they're filled with corporate suits. I'm one of them, but most people I know can't go to games so that is bad. Oh and if the Yankees had any sort of GM that had a clue they would have won 5 WS this decade with their financial competitive advantage. If that were the case you'd possibly see several teams folding by now. Good thing for them they're inept.

its not the yankees faults. bud seligs not stoppin it so why should hank stop it? i hate to admit it but its fair in square unless bud selig actually does his job for once and saves the sport.

No escape clause?

Nice addition for the Yanks. I hate the Yankees, so I'm glad they made all these signings.. When they fail to make the World Series again, despite the most insane payroll in baseball, it will make it even sweeter for me.

"I really wish that baseball would bring in a Commish and gave him complete and total control to improve the game. "

They had 1 like that, his name was Bowie Kuhn and Georgie Steinbrenner hated his guts.. Kuhn had the ba**s to tell him *NO* and the other owners as well when the best interests of the game were at stake.

hate to agree with you mike 923 but thats the facts. Its bud seligs responsibility. not the yankees. yankees are doin simply whats best for the yankees and sayin screw the rest of baseball.

I wonder if the Yankees would trade Swisher to the Braves now? "Can we have your scaps, please?"

As a Yankee Fan for a long-time, I am not impressed by this move. I think Swisher would have been just fine at 1st. Now, we have a logjam at 1st and in the outfield. Matsui isn't well enough to be traded for anything worthwhile. I also feel Nady should be allowed to play one full season before being shipped out(that guy gets canned more than tuna). Swisher could be traded but he was so happy to be a Yankee (and an affordable one at that)!

To all those people saying the Yanks bought themselves a championship: A lot can happen in 162 (+11) games. Players get hurt. Teams get hot / cold. Let the season play out.

And ... the Yankees haven't broken any rules. In fact, they are showing a lot of faith by giving long-term contracts to players when other teams only want to go year to year. The unfair advantage is that our fans are loyal. I live in AZ now but subscribe to YES. When I lived on Long Island, I can remember it taking almost two hours to get to the stadium for a regular season game. Do that many people drive from Madison to go see the Brewers or Canton, OH to Cleveland or from Sacramento to watch the A's? The Yankee Brass must satisfy a rabid fan-base. So, don't blame the Yankees ... as if your team would do anything different, given the chance.

I think this continues to say it best:

As a true Sox fan, I feel sorry for the true Yankee fans out there who are gonna get a bum rap for all the people that are gonna be jumping on your bandwagon next year.

The good thing is they will be jumping off ours.

"so Teixeira replaces Abreu, that's a push, how does this make the yankees better than last year?"

Hardly a push. And that would be if Teix was the only player signed this offseason, which is hardly the case.

buw-ahahahahah?

Yeah, I'm not Jewish but I agree the comment was totally tasteless and out of line and the guy should be banned Tim.

Their payroll is going to be less than last year, so stop whining that someone needs to step-in and do something. They got out from under a bunch of contracts and got 3 great players...dry your tears.

I also don't understand all the talk about Damon. He is a fine LF'er and had the 3rd highest OPS of his career in '08, so you should probably stop acting like he put up Varitek numbers last year.

The Yankees can now bring the young guys through the system and their older more expensive guys will move on. Next year Damon, Matsui, Nady and Pettitte if they sign him. The next year is Mo and Jeter's contract is up, so he'll come back for less than $20 million/year and likely as a CF'er. The year after that Posada and Marte are up and CC could opt-out. Their payroll will be better off going forward than it has been the last few years. The players with the big deals are good now, versus more questionable deals of the past, plus every year they will lose 2-3 of them.

Pettitte better get his act together fast or Matsui and Kennedy could be headed to Seattle for one of their lefty starters.
San Fran might listen to offers on Sanchez, too ... and that might not require Kennedy in the deal.

Maybe the auto makers should skip congress and get a bail out from the Yankees.

Seriously, I agree with mike923. A salary cap alone is not the answer. Plus, baseball will not agree to such a plan until it gets worse for franchises around MLB. Right now, some teams are laying off employees. Even the NFL laid off 550 employees recently. Buffer jobs or not, sports will be taking a hit if things don't turn around in the near future. When teams start to fold or get closer to folding, then action will be taken more serious. We don't know the inside finances of our favorite teams. No doubt some are not doing as well as others.

I think its time to bring this one back to life

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27656

I hope they sign Ben Sheets next, followed by Trevor Hoffman to pitch the 6th innings.

i've never been a fan of the yankees but to say what they're doing is wrong is misguided. The Steinbrenners have made a commitment to remain competitive each and every year no matter how much it costs. It's also what makes baseball interesting, teams have to constantly shuffle players in and out, scout well, and make tough decisions on who to keep and who to go after. Yes sometimes the Yankees go overboard like this off season but they will not spend like this until these huge deals expire. They had upwards of 50 million come off the books, thats why they spent so much

I agree glen lol.

Yankees sign:

Derek lowe: 4 years 70 million
manny ramirez 3 years 75 million
pettite: 2 years 22 mil

you already spent a half billion. why stop now?

Don't Yankees fans have any integrity at all? Do you not care about an even playing field? The Steinbrenner dynasty's attempts at buying world series championships would just be so embarassing to me as a fan. This is competative baseball? I guess it's really MLB that should be scolded for even allowing this garbage to happen.

i dont see manny cuttin that hair like hes supposed to though

Trade matsui....

Nady And Swisher are still kinda young with a great future in front of tyhem

and Johnny Damon still has speed and Batts for average

2009 will not be the first world series bought because the Yankees aren't gonna make the playoffs... like i said earlier.. its going to be hilarious when the Yankees dont make the playoffs again!!!! They are going to receive even more crap because of how much money they spent. Yanks have too many individuals on the team... this is why the YANKEES ARE NOT GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS IN 2009!!

This signing actually negates some of the bargaining power the Yankees had if they were looking to trade Melky, Hideki, or Xavier. (We all agree trading Damon would be outright stupid, correct?)

I am perfectly happy going in to the season with this lineup:
LF/DH - Johnny Damon (410 obp)
SS/DH - Derek Jeter (315 avg)
1B - Mark Texeira (35 HR)
3B - Alex Rodriguez (150 rbi)
C/DH - Jorge Posada (100 rbi)
2B - Robinson Cano (320 avg)
RF/DH - Xavier Nady (100 rbi)
DH/OF/1B - Nick Swisher (30hr)
CF - Brett Gardner (50 steals)

This is pathetic and disgusting... Thank yous for taking baseball to new low go out to the Yanks... $326 million thrown out to scoop up the 3 best free agents on the market? How is any other team supposed to compete? I hope the Yankees' season ends exactly like the last few: lots of $, lots of ego, and no big playoff wins to show for it...

According to ESPN, the Yanks will be under $200MM (after $220MM this year). And close to $40MM come off the books next year.

So when we sign Matt Holliday next year, as Joba and Hughes step into their roles, our payroll will be even smaller than it is this year. Something like $180MM with

Tex, Jeter, ARod, Cano, Posada, Holliday, Swisher, and Gardner/AJax/Melky with CC, Wang, AJ, Joba, Hughes. Wow.

The Yankees ARE NOT increasing salary, what's happening is we're going from huge horrible contracts to huge contracts that look like they have upside (for the time being). The "haha, the Yankee's are awful and can't buy championships"'s are being replaced with "this is terrible and horrible for the sport."

I can live with it.

HAHA they'll try and trade Swisher? good luck LMAO!!!!!

I think yankees next move should be to bail out the auto makers obviously they can afford it!

its kinda funny hearing sox fans complain about no salary cap since theyre also in the top ten with spending. u never hear we small market teams complain much about the sox but the moment your outbid your done with baseball. btw i agree this is ridiuclous but its just funny. how many sox fans jump off the wagon if they dont win a ws in the next 5-8 yrs?

If the Yankees cannot win the World Series with this line-up. Not playoffs it must be only World Series. Otherwise?

Scott Boras is right (words you don't get to say a lot). The players are the ones that have prevented salary caps. The Yankees are just playing the game by the rules that exist... don't blame them. They just do their best to field a winning team every year. I still hate them and agree that it is bad for the game, but it isn't their fault.

Bub Selig get an salary cap and get a salary floor. the yanks are disgracing baseball, american pasttime.
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So when are they having the contraction going out of business sale? There's no way some of the smaller market teams will be able to reach the floor the players union will likely seek of at least 80-100 mil. That would double the payroll of the Rays, Marlins, Pirates, Twins and Nationals. Would that be better for baseball? I don't think so.

Well I hope my Sox go for Peavy, there going to need a strong starting staff.

The Red Sox and Rays have one thing that the Yankees don't have much of. Homegrown Talent.

"Just a thought: If the Yanks are willing to deal one of those OF as the post mentions, I wonder if there is any real possibility for the Reds to be involved in that."

Not unless the Reds are willing to give up Bruce or Volquez, which I doubt.

whitesoxfan this is REAL baseball not fantasy league buddy

Yankee's they are woah...But know that you have most of the good players they're all not gonna work as a team because everyone on that team will want to be the M.V.P

And ... the Yankees haven't broken any rules. In fact, they are showing a lot of faith by giving long-term contracts to players when other teams only want to go year to year. The unfair advantage is that our fans are loyal. I live in AZ now but subscribe to YES. When I lived on Long Island, I can remember it taking almost two hours to get to the stadium for a regular season game. Do that many people drive from Madison to go see the Brewers or Canton, OH to Cleveland or from Sacramento to watch the A's? The Yankee Brass must satisfy a rabid fan-base. So, don't blame the Yankees ... as if your team would do anything different, given the chance.
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Hey Ross, how do you subscribe to the Yes channel? I'm in Cleveland and have been trying to do the same but don't find it listed on any of my cable providers? If you can point me in the right direction I woul appreciate it dude.

Although this move bothers me as a baseball fan it just shows to me that greed will never leave this world. When a superstar doesn't take as much money as they could to play for the Yankees or whoever tell me and I will give a crap about them again. Tex is not worth this amount of money in the first place and he is going to be a bust. Yankees spending is ridiculous. Long live the small market teams!!!!

Go White Sox... even though they aren't a small market team