re: Yankees Close To Acquiring Alfonso Soriano

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We can't just keep buying up all the former stars who are past their prime and signing them to way too inflated contracts.

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The yankees really won't pay much at all, and infact could work it out to where they actually get a credit for next year (sori is owed 18 million next year, if cubs pay all of that then they'd get a 1 million credit since tax works with the average of the salary over the period) to keep it under the luxury tax threshold by paying all of the remainder this year and having the cubs pick up next year's contract. That gives them a better option than wells and could keep them under the tax. Source-BN.

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we might have a losing record for a few seasons

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That's easy to say, i'd love to hear from yankees fan if it actually happend.