{"id":334757,"date":"2025-12-08T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334757\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:59:11","slug":"brian-cashman-insists-he-doesnt-have-hard-hal-steinbrenner-yankees-budget-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334757\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cashman insists he doesn’t have hard Hal Steinbrenner Yankees budget limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO \u2014 As he arrived at the Winter Meetings on Sunday night, Brian Cashman insisted he did so without any hard limits from Hal Steinbrenner<\/a> on his spending this offseason.<\/p>\n

The Yankees GM, who is pursuing a reunion with Cody Bellinger<\/a> and hoping to beef up his bullpen, spoke about how he would love to add a starter and also find better lineup balance than it currently has.<\/p>\n

Accomplishing all, or even some, of that would be difficult if the Yankees were actually going to stay under a $300 million payroll \u2014 which Steinbrenner recently said would be \u201cideal\u201d \u2014 given that they are already projected to be around $283 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time I spoke with you guys, I told you that Hal hadn\u2019t given me a drop-dead number and that\u2019s still the case,\u201d Cashman said in a hotel room at the Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. \u201cHal\u2019s exact words to me continue to be, \u2018Take everything that\u2019s out there to me,\u2019 which I will continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewBrian Cashman addresses reporters during an Oct. 16 press conference. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n

Cashman claimed Steinbrenner has not instructed him to drop the payroll from the $319 million the Yankees finished at last season, which ended in the ALDS against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Asked if the Yankees realistically have to spend more in order to improve their roster from last year, Cashman replied, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different ways to skin a cat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s every owner\u2019s [ideal] \u2014 you\u2019d love to win the whole thing at less of a cost if you possibly can,\u201d Cashman said.<\/p>\n

\"New Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Still, Cashman indicated that the tenor of his conversations with Steinbrenner have not changed this offseason and noted that the Yankees increased their payroll at the trade deadline last season despited exceeding the highest luxury tax threshold.<\/p>\n

Next season\u2019s top tax threshold is $304 million, a figure the Yankees would almost certainly fly past if they are able to land Bellinger. <\/p>\n

Cashman reiterated on Sunday that they would \u201clove to have him back if it could fit for us,\u201d noting that he spoke with Bellinger\u2019s agent, Scott Boras, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

If the Yankees miss out on Bellinger, they could fill the hole in left field internally, with Jasson Dom\u00ednguez and\/or Spencer Jones<\/a>, though that would be another position filled by a left-handed bat (Bellinger also hits left-handed, but he mashed lefty pitching in 2025).<\/p>\n

Perhaps that would free up money for the rotation (which is expected to get Carlos Rod\u00f3n back from the injured list in April or May, and Gerrit Cole in May or June) or the bullpen, which has already lost Devin Williams to the Mets.<\/p>\n

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Whether or not any of those holes gets filled by the time Cashman leaves the Winter Meetings remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we were able to get a lot of things done from the Winter Meetings and beyond,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t think there\u2019s as much \u2014 as deep a need of a lot of things as there was last year. But there\u2019s things I\u2019m obviously trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO \u2014 As he arrived at the Winter Meetings on Sunday night, Brian Cashman insisted he did so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,144290,164516,591,48937,2704,85,185548],"class_list":["post-334757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-cashman","tag-hal-steinbrenner","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-winter-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}