Last week, reports surfaced that the New York Yankees are the Dodgers main competition in whisking free agent first baseman Freddie Freeman away from the Atlanta Braves.
When a player of Freeman’s caliber is available, everyone takes notice. Including ESPN’s Buster Olney and Tim Kurkjian.
The two baseball experts aren’t completing buying Freeman-to-the-Yankees.
Olney thinks New York’s longterm financial commitments to outfielder Giancarlo Stanton and starter Gerrit Cole are significant hurdles to signing Freeman.
“I’m skeptical that they [the Yankees] will actually be the team that signs Freddie Freeman because that would mean you potentially would have three guys making forty-million dollars per year plus…I don’t think they can necessarily fit him in to where their payroll is going to be.