{"id":487107,"date":"2026-01-02T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:51:10","slug":"a-player-by-player-prescription-to-help-yankees-end-title-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487107\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":3,"featured_media":487108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2226,3090,5243,62560,58813,48428,10632,1890,46398,10626,190317,2227,9138,27065,1266,2228,2229,32076,62,2225,52282,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-487107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-aaron-judge","10":"tag-anthony-volpe","11":"tag-austin-wells","12":"tag-ben-rice","13":"tag-brian-cashman","14":"tag-carlos-rodon","15":"tag-david-bednar","16":"tag-gerrit-cole","17":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","18":"tag-hal-steinbrenner","19":"tag-inside-the-yankees","20":"tag-jazz-chisholm","21":"tag-max-fried","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-new-york-yankees","24":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","25":"tag-ryan-mcmahon","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-plus","28":"tag-trent-grisham","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115825599043606882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}