George King, noted crazy man and reporter for the New York Post, published his on one of his off season roundups:
The Yankees New York Yankees , for the second time inside a week, are on the verge of making an eye-popping offer to a free-agent pitcher and behaving like the days when The Boss threw money at free agents with both hands.
The Yankees, according to several industry insiders, spent yesterday preparing an offer – perhaps a five-year deal worth about $80 million – for Toronto righty A.J. Burnett. This would come after they offered Milwaukee lefty CC Sabathia a six-year contract worth between $140 million and $145 million.
And the word on the MLB street is the Yankees have the glue for both. Furthermore, baseball decision-makers believe the Yankees will eventually go after Dodger free-agent righty Derek Lowe.
FIVE YEARS FOR AJ BURNETT? AT 16 MILLION A YEAR? That is so unfathomably crazy I don’t know what to say. I can’t believe it’s real because that is just completely out there and insane. Especially if they’re also looking at Derek Lowe, who I really believe will not be very good in the AL East (remember his last stunt here).
I know “money is no concern” for the Yankees but obviously it is because they’ve said it is. Just bring back Andy Pettitte for a year and fill in that last spot with something, this is no good and it just SCREAMS of the craziness old King George would be taken over by that would inevitably fail horribly.
So yeah, I kind of don’t believe that the offer George King has reportedly heard from reported anonymous sources within the Yankees organization and baseball on the other hand I can’t shake the feeling that it might be true.
