re: Yankees: Why shop Brett Gardner?

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1. It's not about the money. Any notion of the Yankees sticking to a self-imposed salary cap in 2014 is already laughable and it's only December.

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It is about the money. Assuming an arbiter holds up Arod's suspension, they have a good shot at being under the luxury tax line next year, which would bring their penalty down from 50% to something like 17%. Avoiding the repeater tax will be huge for the Yankees moving forward, so they definitely have some incentive to move Gardner.

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3. If the Yankees need to trim the roster, why not move Wells and Ichiro, in that order. Very little downside IMO.

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While I don't think they should trade Gardner, the other two guys can't be considered everyday guys at this point, so I doubt they'd get much for them. Gardner would at least net some reasonable talent.