New York Yankees fans have become accustomed to budgets the last few years. Who can forget Hal Steinbrenner's comments about payroll being at "unsustainable levels" back in 2024? Or how about how the organization became paralyzed by Marcus Stroman's contract last winter and forgot that baseball teams actually need a starting third baseman?
Then there was Steinbrenner's bellyaching over the Dodgers' big spending ways. All of this to have fans believe that the Yankees haven't been as flush as other clubs as they watched the Dodgers and Mets blow past the last luxury tax threshold while the Yankees stared the line down as if it were some kind of invisible and impenetrable force field.