{"id":305883,"date":"2025-11-25T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:17:08","slug":"yankees-owner-gets-real-about-2026-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305883\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Owner Gets Real About 2026 Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">The New York Yankees&#8217; budget for 2026 remains a mystery as they chase big offseason names, and in a recent presser from Yankees&#8217; owner Hal Steinbrenner, the organization would love to spend less money, but it&#8217;s unlikely they will.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">&#8220;Hal Steinbrenner: &#8216;Would it be ideal if I went down [with the payroll]? Of course. But does that mean that&#8217;s going to happen? Of course not. We want to field a team we know we believe could win a championship,'&#8221; The New York Post&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GJoyce9\/status\/1993007818388259307?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Greg Joyce wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steinbrenner said the Yankees finished this year at $319 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\">The second-generation Yankees owner also shared that the team&#8217;s finances will not be affected by their uncertain labor future, and that he supports a salary cap contingent on a salary floor. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GaryHPhillips\/status\/1993009709226524884?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Daily News&#8217; Gary Phillips<\/a>, this echoes previous statements from Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbrenner on Profitability<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">Steinbrenner also spoke on the mindset that the Yankees&#8217; organization should be profitable, describing the expectation as unfair given their expenses.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get into it, but that&#8217;s not a fair statement or an accurate statement,&#8221; Steinbrenner said, via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1993010240745242660?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLB&#8217;s Bryan Hoch<\/a>. &#8220;Everybody wants to talk about revenues. They need to talk about our expenses, including the $100 million dollar expense to the City of New York that we have to pay every February 1, including the Covid year. So it all starts to add up in a hurry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01kavfgf8gvhbddcrxam.jpg\" alt=\"Hal Steinbrenner during a press conference at Yankee Stadium\" title=\"Hal Steinbrenner during a press conference at Yankee Stadium\" width=\"4185\" height=\"2354\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"7f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dec 21, 2022; Bronx, New York, USA; Hal Steinbrenner during a press conference at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jessica Alcheh-Imagn Images | Jessica Alcheh-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7j\">When free agent outfielder (now Yankee once again) Trent Grisham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees\/onsi\/news\/trent-grisham-contract-could-change-new-york-yankees-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accepted his $22 million qualifying offer<\/a>, fans and commentators were concerned about whether the team&#8217;s budget could accommodate their purportedly large offseason appetites. The Yankees are shopping for a big name outfield bat and pitching depth, in addition to a few other wants that would balance their lefty-heavy lineup. According to general manager Brian Cashman at the recent general manager meetings, the organization had not yet given him an exact number, but emphasized that the QO would not affect their pursuit, at least, of free agent Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7m\">\u201cI think we\u2019re in a good spot,\u201d Cashman said on the budget <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/20\/sports\/trent-grishams-return-wont-preclude-yankees-from-cody-bellinger-brian-cahsman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">h\/t Joyce<\/a>. \u201cThe job right now is to find out what\u2019s available, and those all have different price points&#8230; I think it could go both ways. It just depends on how things shake out and what opportunities present themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7p\">The organization is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GaryHPhillips\/status\/1993008382882759122?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">expected to talk about<\/a> a payroll range ahead of the Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7s\">The Yankees&#8217; organization is well known for having deep pockets, and they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees\/onsi\/agents-comments-hint-new-york-yankees-could-land-japanese-pitcher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected to be aggressive<\/a> this offseason after another season ultimately ended in defeat. The price they&#8217;re willing to pay for a possible championship win will be revealed soon enough.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make sure to bookmark Yankees On SI to get all your daily New York Yankees news, interviews, breakdowns and more!<\/a>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees&#8217; budget for 2026 remains a mystery as they chase big offseason names, and in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}