C-Mac wanted to see the Yankees look like the Evil Empire again, but he doesn’t feel the Yanks accomplished that by reportedly stopping at $300 million for Yoshinobu Yamamoto before the Japanese star signed with the Dodgers for $325 million.
“They’re supposed to be the big, bad Yankees…and they offered him a $300 million contract. Why did you stop $25 million short?” C-Mac said. “They went to $300 million. Why stop there?
“To allow the Dodgers to come in here and hijack baseball with ridiculous contracts and spending $1.1 billion, trading for Glasnow. They got a damn superteam over there…the Dodgers are the Evil Empire.”
The Yankees didn’t land the big pitching free agent prize of the offseason, and C-Mac says it again feels like a trend of the Yanks making a big splash in the winter (trading for Juan Soto), only to tap the brakes and not make that final all-in push to end their title drought.
“They’ve never went all the way in,” C-Mac said. “They’ve never said, ‘We got Judge, we got Rodon, now we’re gonna go all in and get an All-Star left fielder.’
“If Soto is the only move, and you get a couple back-end rotation guys, or back-end bullpen pitchers, not enough…you’ve got a rotation of Cole, and I don’t know. The Yankees have to pivot fast, and pivot aggressively.”
