Man, that’s a lot of money. I guess the Yanks didnt really have a choice though.

It appears that they’re working on a real budget this year. Jim, Do you think this signing has prevented them from giving someone like Lyons what he wanted?

I noticed catcher Jeffrey Glenn’s name was bolded on the list of first 10 round draft picks, meaning he was signed.. but I haven’t seen a report on it.. Jim can you confirm?

Hi Jim,

I’m wondering why you think the Yanks won’t be signing Lyons today? Do you know what he’s asking for?

It would disappoint me greatly if the Yanks got cheap with a guy that had a great summer on the Cape.

Good tip, thanks Petey Pablo.

PS – According to the nomaas blog, it seems like the Yanks are going to let Lyons go back to college over $500K. While I philosophically understand the concept of “budget”, I don’t see how the Yanks could get frugal over $500K. Seems silly to me to draft someone, watch him do well in Cape Cod and then send him back to school over half a million bucks…

They have a 200 million dollar plus payroll,they spend more money on the draft and the internatioal circuit combine then any team.mlb enough already.When is this going to end.Only in mlb this happens.I hear the Yankees are also going to sign Chapman as well.

The Yankees painted themselves into a corner where they had to pay through the nose to hold on to their top 2 choices, and their top draftees were confident that the Yankees would break down and do so. Frankly, as a Yankees fan, I would have preferred that they had passed on Heathcott and signed 5-6 of the signability cases instead. That would have sent a message to future draftees that the Yankees can be pushed only so far. I predict that the Yankees behavior this year will only encourage more greed in future picks, and by 2015 the Yankees draft budget will only cover the top 5 draftees.

Oh, I’m with you, MJ, but apparently the Yankees are not. They set a fixed budget, allowed the top two guys to hold them up, and ended up with nothing left in their budget for a nice $500K pickup like Lyons.

Maybe they just dont like Lyons and dont project him to be a future starter.
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I’m not sure we can make that logical conclusion. It’s hard to say that they look at him and don’t like his projectability based on the fact they drafted him and then watched him toss 45.2 IP, 44 K, 1.77 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, .210 BAA in the Cape this summer.

I guess anything’s possible but this just seems like the Yanks are operating backwards again.

Jim, I have a question that probably gets asked a lot during this time of the year, why do NCAA regulations allow an amatuer player to sign with an agent and then attend school if they don’t sign? I’m assuming that baseball is the only sport where this is allowed. Also, does that mean said player who returns to school is still property of said agent? Like lets say Donovan Tate doesn’t sign and goes to UNC, would he still be a Boras Corp. client?

The events of today concerning Heathcott and Murphy does not surprise me. When it comes to the draft they talk out of both sides of their collective mouths. Although Cashman says they have put more of a priority and premium on the draft, however when it comes to actually showing that committment, they act more like the Kansas City Royals than the New York Yankees. They tighten the purse strings mismanage negotiations as in the Michael Inoa failed signing and today with not using their levarage with Heathcott. Also another puzzling move involving the Yankee draft, prior to the draft they absolutely loved David Renfroe, so come the draft they pass over him twice and let the red Sox scoop him up. I still believe that as far as the draft goes they will spend up to a moderate point, and save their “bulletts” for free agency to acquire established veteran players.