Role Reversal

Cashman looking to fill roster spots with unfamiliar financial restrictions

The Yankees look "more vulnerable than they've been in years" heading into the '13 season, as team Managing General Partner & co-Chair Hal Steinbrenner's "insistence on getting below the $189 million luxury-tax threshold for 2014" has left them "without their traditional route (big spending) for fixing the problems," according to Danny Knobler of CBSSPORTS.com. Steinbrenner has "insisted to other owners that the $189 million mandate is very real, that he won't budge on it." By getting "under the luxury-tax threshold for that one year, the Yankees would re-set the penalty, which otherwise goes up every year." They also would "gain other benefits." However, the "question that others are asking is whether they real ...