Now There Are Signs of Life

Andy Pettitte coming back to the rotation is really icing on the cake--the real news is that the Yankees have demonstrated the curious situation of spending for talent in MLB today. There has been this article of faith the the Yankees have driven the market to extremes there has been a campaign against them--sort of like in Gulliver's travels when the giant got hogtied by the Little people--and a special punishment tax-now at 40%. The tax is a simple confiscation and for years the teams that got the money seemed to pocket it. Now and this has almost always been the case the Yankees have been hampered by the incredible spending of the other teams. Ted Lilly is not a $10m/ year talent. Good teams beat him like a drum. Gil Meche has potential but he should deliver on it before he gets more than the payroll of three or four teams. Pettitte is not worth $20M but he is worth $14-15m ( what he got less the tax) in todays market he might have gone for more. The Yankees didn't do Manny for $18M five years ago. They didn't do Arod for $25m, they didn't do Beltran or Soriano either...so lets get over this anti-Yankee nonsense and deal with the real Matsuzaka-$100m+ for a rookie? For cryin' out loud--somebody is wa-a-a-y off base on who and what is driving the market for talent.