Yanks Again Set Payroll Record: $218.3M
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NEW YORK -- The Yankees did finish first in something last year _ spending. While its streak of AL East titles ended at nine, New York wound up with a record payroll of $218.3 million.
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As priceless as winning the franchise's first World Series in 86 years may have seemed, the Red Sox yesterday absorbed a $3.1 million tax for exceeding baseball's $120.5 million payroll threshold by $14 million.
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The right-hander, joining the Yankees on his 29th birthday, received a three-year contract worth a reported $21 million. Wright pitched for the Atlanta Braves last season, when
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NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees finalized a $3.75 million, one-year contract with LaTroy Hawkins on Thursday, strengthening their weak middle relief with the veteran right-hander.
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NHL Rick DiPietro re-signed with the New York Islanders yesterday, agreeing to a record 15-year deal that will pay the No. 1 goalie $67.5 million and keep him in the fold until 2022, when he would be 40. The deal is the longest in NHL history, topping the 10-year, $87.5 million contract the Islanders gave center Alexei Yashin in 2001. ...
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Mike Mussina pitched into the eighth inning, Alex Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 25th homer and the New York Yankees beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-2 Wednesday night to extend their season-high winning streak to eight.
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Mike Mussina and the New York Yankees finalized their $23 million, two-year contract on Monday.
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Alex Rodriguez has signed a record 10-year deal with the New York Yankees worth $275 million, the team said on Thursday.
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The Yankees again appear close to acquiring Randy Johnson from the Diamondbacks.
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The Yankees will offer Alex Rodriguez a raise from the $25.2 million average annual value of the contract he signed in 2000, probably for five years beyond his current contract.
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The New York Yankees, the most celebrated franchise in United States sport who boast a payroll of more than $A255 million, have gone down 22-0 to the Cleveland Indians in New York.
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All that stands between Randy Johnson and the New York Yankees are a bunch of medical tests. The Big Unit and the Yankees reached a preliminary agreement Thursday on a &#36;32 million, two-year contract extension, leaving only a physical as the final step needed to finishing the drawn-out process of finalizing the trade Arizona and the Yankees agreed to Dec. 30.
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The New York Yankees are comfortably the richest team in baseball. Their $180m annual wage bill is more than double that of most of their counterparts, and they have many of the game&#39;s most luminous stars in their line-up.
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Even in winter, there are baseball doubleheaders in New York. The Mets scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning at Shea Stadium to announce their &#36;119 million, seven-year contract with center fielder Carlos Beltran. Three hours later at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees have summoned media to announce they have acquired Randy Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Joe Torre is out as manager of the New York Yankees, rejecting a substantial pay cut after the team failed to make it past the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year. Torre turned down a $5 million, one-year contract Thursday Â $2.5 million less than he made last season.
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The New York Yankees finalized their $4 million, two-year contract with second baseman Tony Womack on Tuesday. Womack, who gets $2 million annually, hit .307 with five homers and 38 RBIs last season for the St.
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Baseball The New York Yankees did accomplish something this year: They lowered their luxury tax for the second straight season. The Yankees were hit with a tax bill of $23.88 million by Major League Baseball in a notice sent to teams late Friday, pushing them over the $100 million mark since the penalty for profligate spending was introduced in 2003. ...