The Yankees’ top rivals just paid top dollar to acquire a top performer, and Brian Cashman views the situation without much complexity: It was the Red Sox’s turn.
“Where their franchise happens to be sitting versus where we happen to be sitting, they have the ability to do certain things more so than we do,” the Yankees general manager said Friday morning as he prepared to rappel down the 22-story Landmark Building in Stamford, Conn., as part of the city’s “Heights & Lights” program. “It’s as simple as that.”
Boston guaranteed seven years and $217 million to free-agent lefty David Price, whom the Yankees know very well from his time in Tampa Bay and Toronto.