In one of the least surprising developments of the offseason, the Yankees blew away the field and blew away their business plan from the past two years to sign Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka. To become relevant again after missing the playoffs last year,
Tanaka has baseball in a standstill. With just three days until he must agree to a deal, where do teams stand?
A seven-year, $155 million commitment is not just big in Japan but big anywhere, and the Yankees' willingness to make that commitment to Masahiro Tanaka was the result of a perfect storm — a feeble free-agent market, a desperate Bronx squad burned by
The New York Yankees were not trying to flex their marketplace muscles before their town was taken over by Peyton Manning and Richard Sherman (Or is it Richard Sherman and Peyton Manning?). Giving $155 million to Masahiro Tanaka was not the
In one of the least surprising developments of the offseason, the Yankees blew away the field and blew away their business plan from the past two years to sign Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka. To become relevant again after missing the playoffs last year,