{"id":383495,"date":"2026-01-02T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:19:08","slug":"a-player-by-player-prescription-to-help-yankees-end-title-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383495\/","title":{"rendered":"A player-by-player prescription to help Yankees end title drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some New Year\u2019s resolutions \u2014 promise, we don\u2019t mean you \u2014 don\u2019t even make it out of January.<\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t fail on them if you don\u2019t make them. So we\u2019re here to help out the Yankees in making resolutions for 2026 as they try to end a 17-year title drought, and given that they do not report to spring training until February, here\u2019s hoping they at least last a little longer than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hal Steinbrenner: Open the wallet or open the books<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. Easy for me to say, given that it is not my money. And perhaps the Yankees owner has a point when he says it <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/21\/sports\/hal-steinbrenner-wonders-if-300m-payroll-is-needed-to-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">should not take a $300 million payroll to win<\/a> a championship. But given the contracts already on the books, including another dead one (DJ LeMahieu\u2019s $15 million), and the Yankees already projected to be at $286.5 million for luxury tax purposes, this situation calls for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some New Year\u2019s resolutions \u2014 promise, we don\u2019t mean you \u2014 don\u2019t even make it out of January.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1992,4260,4701,4700,27449,146352,76817,39466,9306,4699,160884,141568,2009,6134,363,369,4892,24276,99,358,4710],"class_list":["post-383495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-austin-wells","tag-ben-rice","tag-brian-cashman","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-david-bednar","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-hal-steinbrenner","tag-inside-the-yankees","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-ryan-mcmahon","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-trent-grisham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}