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Yankees 2009 Payroll Due To Expand with Teixera Signing
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by Jon Azpiri | December 23, 2008 at 04:33 pm
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The New York announced that they have signed first baseman Mark Teixera to a whopping $180-million, eight-year contract.
The deal almost certainly put the Yankees over the salary cap for the 2009 season. Yesterday, the Yankees were asked to pay a $26.9 million luxury tax bill for the 2008 season.
The Yankees have handed out a staggering $423.5 million worth of contracts during this offseason. Just last week, they gave C.C. Sabathia a $161 million, seven-year contract and pitcher A.J. Burnett a five-year $82.5 million deal.
The Yankees now have the four biggest contracts in baseball. They may not be over as rumors persist that the team is pursuing Manny Ramirez.
As for the Yankees payroll, the team has many large contracts coming off the books including Jason Giambi, Carl Pavano, and Mike Mussina. The Yankees 2009 payroll may be around $210 million approximately the same as last year's payroll. To do that, however, they may have to trade current Yankees like Hideki Matsui or Xavier Nady.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (19)
at 19:35 on December 23rd, 2008
The yankees seem to be building up for a pennant next year.
at 20:44 on December 24th, 2008
they always have tried to buy wins
at 10:13 on December 24th, 2008
If only they'd win sometime ...
at 03:00 on January 21st, 2009
Thats funny if only the yankees won something? cause in the last 10 years they still have more WS then any team in baseball thats pretty funny and there about to add another because stupid gms who dont have the balls to pull the trigger on great players i.e mets, boston, dodgers, angels, (for lettting us get tex and soon the be manny) sorry that our owners put the money back into our team and that we sell out a 50,000 seat stadium every night. maybe you haters should start bitching to your own owners to spend money on your teams instead of pocketing the money
at 13:19 on January 23rd, 2009
ebiz - you big dummy. What kind of seats can you afford in the new piece of crap stadium? the Steins could care less about you and the fans. All they care about is buying an all star team and try buying a world series. Steinbrenner ruined baseball and the crap head, spoiled little Steins are following in daddies footsteps. Carry on you bunch of losers.
Besides, the Boston Celtics are the greatest franchise of all time anyway, so don't fool yourself.
at 08:06 on April 8th, 2009
Boston Celtics.....best franchise?? ARE YOU F*CKIN SERIOUS! I'm so sure that people all across the globe recognize the crappy leprechaun on the Celtics logo more than the NY on the Yankees logo. Quit fooling yourself d*ckwad, the yankees have produced more All-Stars and HOF'ers than any other franchise in HISTORY! Let me know when the Red Sox come close to our numbers of championships then we can talk, till then keep sucking on big papi's cock.
at 23:01 on May 29th, 2009
They better have, with that payroll every year they don't win is a failure.
at 05:24 on January 7th, 2009
THIS is why the Yankees suck. Well, this and the Steinbrenner family. Here's hoping a rash of groin pulls strike the Yankee locker room...
at 05:56 on January 7th, 2009
my only hope is that at some point over the course of the 162 game season, the players trip over their wallets and spend some time on the DL to give the other teams a chance.
at 15:33 on January 7th, 2009
wow yankees are going to lose anyway their terrible... can't buy wins gotta earn em with the farm system. and other teams will do fine they just get hasbeens
at 12:22 on January 10th, 2009
And your an idiot if your that stupid to NOT realize that the yankees DO HAVE players from the farm system. Wang, Cabrera, Cano , Jeter , Posada , Phil Hughes, Mariano Rivers, Ian Kennedy and a few others coming up this year. But I guess somebody like you expects ALL teams to have a full roster of Farm players, and then let free retire. moron
at 15:42 on January 11th, 2009
you also have the 4 biggest contracts in baseball now is that fair moron
at 09:14 on January 14th, 2009
Wang isn't really a farm player as he was signed as a free agent to the highest bidder, rather than drafted. Hughes and Kennedy are scrubs and are isnignifant. How many starters (pitchers and position) were drafted by the Yankees? 5 or so out of 14?
at 18:57 on January 16th, 2009
I have never heard of Mariano Rivers, he must still be down in the farm system. They do have a pretty good closer named Mariano Rivera, however.
at 07:41 on January 9th, 2009
"The deal almost certainly put the Yankees over the salary cap for the 2009 season."
There is no salary cap in baseball.
at 09:14 on January 15th, 2009
This coming baseball season the Yankees got rid of a couple of players and welcomed new ones, which i think is good adding C.C. Sabathia ,A.J. Burnett, and Mark Texiera. i like their off season moves this year
at 09:42 on January 26th, 2009
As much as I like the Yankees, it seems like the more they spend the less they get. As far as you Yankee haters, calm down about the team spending. They are playing the game within the rules. Money does not win world series champions. They are a big market team! get over it.
Oh yah and the Boston Celtics
Kevin Garnett Boston $24,750,000
Paul Pierce Boston $18,077,904
Ray Allen Boston $17,388,430
Most in NBA
at 15:01 on April 15th, 2009
I hate people who say, "Yankees can't win anything" Let me remind you they have 26 world series rings. Most by any team in professsional sports. They spend because they can. It's not their fault other teams don't have money. Take Marlins for example, their stadium is always empty, and Yankee stadium is full. People who hate yankees are nothing but sore losers. Yankees are GREAT, BE JEALOUS.
at 04:03 on April 20th, 2009
the yankees fuckin suck they can spend all the money they want but all they are is a bunch of individual talent