The New York Yankees' interest in free agent pitcher Blake Snell has seen "a slight softening" recently, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post.
A team source said that Snell's agent would need to agree to a lower price in order to finalize a deal, Heyman wrote.
Heyman previously reported on Feb. 1 that the Yankees were willing to offer a contract bigger than Carlos Rodon's six-year, $162 million contract to acquire Snell.
According to Heyman, however, Snell might be seeking something more comparable to the seven-year, $245 million deal Stephen Strasburg signed with the Washington Nationals in 2019.