As we saw with the Corbin deal on Tuesday, teams are going to have to overpay to land one of the top free agent starters this offseason. The Yankees learned that the hard way when they weren’t willing to offer Corbin anything more than a five-year deal worth $100 million.
It’s not that the Yankees were wrong not to offer Corbin a six-year, $140 million deal like the one he ended up signing with the Nationals. However, if they think any of the top starters still available are going to take a discount just because they’re the Yankees than they’re sorely mistaken.