According to SNY’s Andy Martino, the Yankees are willing to raise their payroll to historic proportions to land some of the biggest stars of the offseason.
Per Martino, Hal Steinbrenner and Yankee ownership are willing to take their payroll to over $300 million, a landmark the organization has never gone, in order to bring in both Juan Soto and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Steinbrenner has said in the past that teams shouldn’t need to have a $300 million payroll to win championships, but he could be willing to pay up after last season’s disaster that ended with the team’s worst record in over 30 years.
Yamamoto, who is reportedly set to meet with the Yanks in the United States on Monday, could command a $300 million deal in free agency, but the Yankees have been heavily in on the star pitcher, with Brian Cashman himself scouting the righty in Japan earlier this year. Should the Yanks complete a deal to bring in Soto, Martino reports that it wouldn’t sway the team from going after Yamamoto as well.
Such a spending spree would be unlike anything Yankee fans have seen since before the 2014 season, when the likes of Jacoby Ellsbury, Masahiro Tanaka, Carlos Beltran, and Brian McCann were signed.
