Straight cash, homey
It's About The Money - A New York Yankees Blog —
Back up the dumptrucks! Start the wire transfers. Check your account balance, baby! This is about cash, and just how much of it the Yankees will offer their No. 1 offseason target. Well, really it is about how much more of it they will offer than ...
Let the bidding begin (almost)
New York Yankees Fan Blog —
... , but our excitement spiked when we read Joel Sherman's piece on how the Yankees are " ready to blow away CC with a big offer ." On his blog, Sherman expands on his thought. He notes that in making a big offer to CC, the Yankees are not only sending the lefty a clear message of their intentions, but ...
Yanks To Make Offer To Sabathia Tomorrow
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees will "aggressively extend a proposal" to C.C. Sabathia tomorrow. He believes the Yankees will go to "a financial region that no other franchise would even consider" to lure the ace. Sherman's guess is an initial bid in the six-year, $150MM range (and that may not be the final offer). ...
$500,000 Per Pound
Depressed Fan —
... According to Joel Sherman, the Yanks won't waste any time in their pursuit of C.C. Sabathia. Sherman pegs their initial offer at $150M/6 years and thinks that could be only the starting point. Sherman says they'll submit their first offer tomorrow. ...
Sherman Sees Yanks Offering CC $25 Mill A Year For Six
WasWatching.com —
From Joel Sherman -
The Yankees want Sabathia, want him as badly as Eric Mangini wants to beat Bill Belichick tonight. All things being equal, Sabathia wants to go home to California and play in the NL, where he can hit. But as a friend of Sabathia’s said yesterday, “he is mature enough and realistic enough to know that the Yankees might not make it close. And if it is not close - no matter how much he likes the West Coast and likes hitting - he is not going to walk away from $25 million. This is not rocket science. It is about how much more the ...
Buzz: Derek Lowe, Sabathia and Freddy
MetsBlog.com —
... Speaking of Sabathia, according to Joel Sherman in the New York Post, the Yankees intend to make him an aggressive offer, i.e., six-years, $150 million in Sherman’s opinion. ...
Rumors and innuendo - Nov. 13
Pinstripe Alley —
... For whatever it's worth, Joel Sherman believes the Yankees will soon make an offer to CC Sabathia worth $150 million over six years. A friend of Sabathia's said: ...
Yankees will offer a six-year, $150 million contract to Sabathia tomorrow?
Zell's Pinstripe Blog —
According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post , the Yankees will “aggressively extend a proposal” to C.C. Sabathia tomorrow. He believes the Yankees will go to “a financial region that no other franchise would even consider” to lure the ace. Sherman’s guess is an initial bid in the six-year, $150MM range (and that may not be the final offer). ...
Shopping Season Starts Tomorrow
Baseball & The Boogie Down —
... is reporting that the Yanks won't wait long to blow CC away with an offer. I don't really see the Yankees not getting CC. I think signing him is a must and if that means making him the highest paid pitcher in baseball than they need to do that. It all starts tomorrow and I don't think the Yankees will wait long to strike. ...
Yankees Preparing Big Offer for CC?
Hot Foot —
... Joel Sherman of the NYPost is reporting that the Yankees are prepared to offer free agent SP CC Sabathia a huge deal that could eclipse the amount the Mets gave ...
CC Sabathia Could Get $25 Million A Year From The Yankees
FanIQ Blog —
... teams chances of retaining a player - because let's be honest, the Brewers have no chance of keeping Sabathia - that bother me. The chips are repeatedly stacked against teams like the Royals, Brewers, Marlins, etc., every season.
While that may not seem like such a big deal now, it may ultimately be important when no one outside of New York or Boston ever wants to see their team play anymore.
Yankees ready to blow away Sabathia with big offer [New York Post]
MLB Trade Rumors: Mark Teixeira and C.C. Sabthia
FakeTeams —
... The less obvious signal ties into Joel Sherman's article in yesterday's NY Post. He reported the Yankees were readying a preemptive offer to SP C.C. Sabathia that will completely demoralize any other potential suitors - something north of the record-setting deal given to Johann Santana last winter. If teams know the Yankees will pay $150MM, how many other teams will even try to vie for Sabathia? ...
Starting Pitcher: Four Years, $50 million
MetsBlog.com —
... Yesterday, in the New York Post, citing his ‘gut,’ Joel Sherman wrote the Yankees intend to offer six years and roughly $150 million to free-agent RHP CC Sabathia. ...
