New York! The place where everybody comes to get paid before they turn into a pumpkin. Welcome! It happens with literally 80% of high-profile Yankees players that have walked through the door during the Aaron Boone era.
Is Brian Cashman signing and trading for the wrong players? Is Boone the wrong manager for all of them? Whatever it is, it isn't working! And the latest example is Max Fried, who received the largest free agent contract for a left-handed starter in MLB history when he signed an eight-year, $218 million deal in December.
Many fans scratched their heads when that deal went down, but there were many reasons it looked good on the surface (and it still could be!