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Message: [QUOTE="PoppyHart, post: 3066926, member: 515"] There is certainly a puzzling nature to the Yankees' school of thought. They are both cheap and free-spending at the same time. I agree with earlier poster that lamented the Stanton signing. Post-Ellsbury, he's the one player they truly overpaid or stretched for imo. And he's likely to spend the majority of his pinstripe days at DH I would wager. It's fine to have an organizational mentality of fiscal discipline, but Cashman and Co. have done a poor job of adapting to the new normal in recent years of supply/demand in the starting pitcher's market. I may be wrong, but it seems like teams are more aggressive with signing their young stars and preventing them from hitting free agency. Couple that with the wild card system which keeps more teams mathematically alive, and the quantity/quality of pitchers shrinks. Keuchel or Corbin would have fit in well. [/QUOTE]