In this off-season, the Yankees didn’t actively acquire new
players, because the owner of the Yankees, Hal Steinbrenner, decided to avoid
pay luxury tax.
In MLB, teams whose amount of salary of their players exceeds
a limit should pay luxury tax. If a team
wants to avoid luxury tax, it shall reduce the amount of salary.
Consequently, the member of the Yankees in this season was
much worse than the previous season.
Furthermore, leading players got injured continuously. Now,
there is no Jeter, Teixeira, Granderson, or A-Rod in the Yankee’s
bench.
At the opening game in this season, Sabathia, who is the ace
pitcher of the Yankees, was in bad shape. In addition, Kuroda, who is the most
reliable rotation pitcher, was hit at his right hand by a line drive at the
next game.
Misfortunes never come singly. This is the worst season opener
of the New York Yankees in these twenty years.
In other words, it is worst now. I hope that it will not be
worse than now.
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