Yankees Rumors: New York playing coy, in on free agent RHP Max Scherzer?

Despite plenty of reports popping up to the contrary, one respected baseball writer believes the New York Yankees are currently playing coy and are actually in on free-agent ace Max Scherzer.

Per FOX Sports' Jon Morosi, "if your question today is whether I believe the Yankees are pursuing Scherzer, the answer is an emphatic yes. The New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium could have been renamed the "We Are Not Signing Max Scherzer Bowl," and I wouldn't have been convinced."

Morosi draws a parallel in his article between the Scherzer situation and the way the New York Yankees handled their pursuit of Mark Teixeira before signing him to an eight-year, $180 million mega-contract just before Christmas in 2008.

"A search of newspaper archives for mid-December of that year revealed that the Yankees were not comfortable paying Teixeira more than $160 million ... were merely "on the outskirts of the pursuit" for him ... and had done all their major spending on other areas of the team," Morosi writes.

Whether GM Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees' brass are employing the same strategy right now with Scherzer is still unclear, but stay tuned for what could be some true late-offseason fireworks.

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