A source with knowledge of the Yankees ‘ situation claimed that the team is done signing high-priced free agents.
With only 37 weeks until cups and keepers report to spring training camps in Florida and Arizona on February 14, that leaves coveted people like Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman among the 164 free officials also available.
The New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox are among clubs also shopping.
But not the Yankees. After losing Juan Soto, who had spent 15 years with the Mets, for$ 765 million, just before the Dallas Winter Meetings started to take place in the first few days of December, they made all their deals and industries.
Since then, they added pitcher Max Fried for eight years,$ 218 million, and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt for one year,$ 12.5 million. They also re-signed reliever Jonathan Loáisiga for one year,$ 5 million.

Additionally, New York acquired Milwaukee Brewers closer Devin Williams, who signed an$ 8.4 million deal this year and is a free agent next year, for$ 25 million for the season and a player option for$ 22 million for the same year. In exchange for relief Fernando Cruz and another copy catcher Alex Jackson, the Yankee also traded back catcher Jose Trevino to the Cincinnati Reds.
” We’ve done some heavy lifting with] Fried], with Devin Williams, with Bellinger”, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman recently said. ” But there’s more]light ] lifting to do”.
The Yankees are also looking to bring in a mid-level left-handed relief and take out basic Marcus Stroman and his$ 18.3 million agreement, but that’s it. If Stroman pitches 140 innings this year, another$ 18.3 million shirts for next year.
This seems to prevent the signing of Chinese star cup Roki Sasaki, who may be facing a West Coast team, the Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres, according to reports. Between January 15 and January 24, Sasaki has the option to join a Major League Baseball group, or he must start playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines, the Nippon Professional Baseball group that he started playing for.
New York, with$ 270.6 million committed to 13 players for luxury tax purposes, are second in spending thus far behind Los Angeles at$ 336 million, although the Dodgers have already committed money to 19 players. When considering their whole 40-man schedules, the Yankees were second behind the Dodgers in 2024 with the Mets sandwiched between them.

The Yankees lost the World Series to the Dodgers in five matches in 2024, and in the cost-effective American League, they are odds-on friends to profit. But gone along with Soto from the AL final group is Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres, Alex Verdugo, Clay Holmes, Tommy Kahnle, Jon Berti, Nestor Cortes and Trevino.
Clubs in the AL are not spending like the National League this season, in particular, NL West clubs—aside from the Colorado Rockies, who have only spent$ 119.4 million to date—are trying to keep up with the Dodgers ‘ spending to be competitive. Likewise, in the NL East, the Mets ($ 252 million ), the Philadelphia Phillies ($ 267 million ) and the Atlanta Braves ($ 185.7 million ) are all spending.
In the AL East, the Red Sox ($ 182.6 million ) and Blue Jays ($ 163.1 million ) have healthy payrolls, but haven’t made major splashes on the free agent market thus far this offseason. The Baltimore Orioles ($ 102.9 million ) and Tampa Bay Rays ($ 62.9 million ) have done neither. The Patriots will have to play in the Yankees 11, 026-capacity flower training estimate this year because of the storm damage to their house Tropics Field. The group is 28th in MLB in investing.
Yet the Houston Astros, heretofore the Yankees ‘ greatest most recent rival, have cut back on their spending this year. They have a ninth-in-MLB$ 183.1 million payroll, way down from$ 264.8 million last season.
And the Texas Rangers, World Series champs in 2023, have shed payroll to$ 212.8 million, down$ 52 million.