Baseball Needs Yankees

By signing A.J. Burnett, CC Sabathia, and Mark Teixeira, the Yankees have spent $423.5MM in contracts this offseason. This has caused many team's owners and GMs, and some players (Torii hunter), to hate the Yankees even more. Brewers GM, Doug Melvin, has said, "At the rate the Yankees are going, I don't think anyone can compete with them. Frankly, the sport might need a salary cap." The "salary cap" idea got a lot of discussion. However, with many GMs supporting it, there were many against it who were fine with the Yankees' spending spree. One GM said that this was "the Yankees way of competing," and that they "paid their price with that luxury tax, so who cares?" That is something that the baseball world has come to realize. The Yankees seem to have an infinite budget, and with the New Stadium (60% bigger than the old one and more expensive), $88.5MM coming off the books, and after not making the playoffs last year, the Yankees were determined to sign the best players, and they had the budget to do it. However, that is there way of playing the game. Many other teams do it differently such as the Rays, who have the second-lowest payroll in baseball, yet last year, they beat out the Yankees and the Red Sox (#s 1 and 3 in payroll) for the AL East and won the pennant. It's just the way life works.

However, baseball needs the Yankees. They need that team to hate. They need a Goliath. And now that the Yankees have made half of baseball hate them again, there can be a David (or just Goliath)