It's beyond time for a salary cap...then the Yankees will only have four players. Take the salaries across all 30 teams and average it...that's the cap. At $90M (average salaries across all MLB), the Yankees will have Jeter, Sabathia, Pettitte, and A-Rod...that's it as they will have overspent at that point!
This came from a
Yahoo Sports article:
The Yankees are used to flexing their financial muscle to land free agents of their choosing. Baseball’s top four salaries this year belong to players in pinstripes: Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Derek Jeter, and Mark Teixeira, whose combined $100.5 million exceeded the entire payrolls of all but eight major league teams.
This says that 22 of 30 teams spent less for their team than the Yankees did for only four players! I'm sad to see Lee go, but if he is happy playing in Philly, it wasn't my decision where he plays in 2011.