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Yankees’ Steinbrenner: Dodgers’ Spending ‘Tough’ for Remainder of MLB to Match in FA

Scott Polacek @@ScottPolacek Featured Columnist IV January 29, 2025 Dustin Satloff/Getty Images Baseball fans who grew up during the so-called “Evil Empire” days of the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner could surely never envision a time when the Bronx Bombers were the ones complaining about another team’s spending. But that day has apparently arrived.

Yankees’ Steinbrenner: Dodgers’ Spending ‘Tough’ for Remainder of MLB to Match in FA

Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekX.com LogoFeatured Columnist IVJanuary 29, 2025

BRONX, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 21: Yankees principal owner Hal Steinbrenner speaks during a press conference at Yankee Stadium on December 21, 2022 in Bronx, New York. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)

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Baseball followers who grew up in the course of the so-called “Evil Empire” days of the New York Yankees beneath George Steinbrenner might certainly by no means envision a time when the Bronx Bombers have been those complaining about one other crew’s spending.

However that day has apparently arrived.

Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner, who’s the son of George, mentioned the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spending this offseason throughout a Tuesday interview on the YES Community with Meredith Marakovits (h/t Brendan Kuty of The Athletic) and conceded it’s “troublesome” for many different groups to maintain tempo.

“Properly, look: It is troublesome for many of us house owners to have the ability to do the type of issues that they are doing,” he mentioned. “Now, we’ll see if it pays off. They nonetheless should have a season comparatively injury-free for it to work out for them, and it is a lengthy season, as you realize, and when you get to the postseason, something can occur. We have seen that point and time once more.”

It isn’t as if the Yankees can cry poor contemplating Forbes lately ranked them because the fourth-most helpful sports activities franchise on the earth with a worth of $7.55 billion. By comparability, the Dodgers have been twenty fourth at $5.45 billion, which was the second-highest mark in Main League Baseball.

But it’s Los Angeles that has been pacing the sphere in spending this offseason.

Kuty and Chris Kirschner of The Athletic cited knowledge from Cot’s Contracts and famous Los Angeles has the league’s highest projected luxury-tax payroll of $376.4 million after spending practically a half-billion in offers this offseason alone.

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The Philadelphia Phillies are second at $307.8 million, whereas the Yankees verify in at third at $302.9 million.

Los Angeles was already the reigning World Sequence champion with stars similar to Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, and it responded by including gamers similar to Blake Snell, Rōki Sasaki, Teoscar Hernández, Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and others this offseason.

Something however one other run to the World Sequence could be a shock, and the Yankees could also be ready for them once more after including Max Fried, Cody Bellinger, Devin Williams and Paul Goldschmidt this offseason.

Groups decrease on the spending record seemingly will not love Steinbrenner because the messenger in relation to making an announcement concerning the Dodgers’ spending given the Yankees’ place in MLB’s pecking order.

However he did level to the huge discrepancies that solely grew this offseason as Los Angeles continued so as to add high quality gamers.

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