The Yankees came to the realization they can no longer simply buy their way into the playoffs:
Cashman all but admitted the Yankees were slow to adapt.
”The chessboard that’s lined up that we’re playing is not the same chessboard that we were playing back when I just started in the late `80s,” he said. ”It’s a recognition of how the industry’s completely different today and the operating standards are completely different today, and there’s just a sounder recognition of that. And if you want to become a super team, there’s certain ways to go about that that you have to strongly consider. And although they may be tough decisions, the one thing the Yankees have always stood for and do stand for is the effort in trying to become a super team.”
Convinced they are unlikely to reach the playoffs this year, the Yankees are pivoting to the future. New York hopes to get under the luxury tax threshold by no later than 2018, which would put the team in prime position to spend again after that season. Bryce Harper, Jose Fernandez, Manny Machado and Clayton Kershaw are among the stars who could be on the market that fall.
That’s the nice thing about being a team with a lot of money. If you can build a good base, it’s easy to add the final pieces via trades and free agency. That’s how they won in the 1990s. We’ll see if they can pull it off again.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2aCUH7k
No comments:
Post a Comment