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Will Cash Dish Out Max Cash?

Winter Meetings come to a close today and there has been no shortage of storylines. Jon Lester finally made up his mind taking a 6 year $155 million deal from the Cubs, now the attention shifts to Max Scherzer. Scherzer is reportedly seeking a deal north of $200 million, is this too rich for the Yankees blood? After all, they have been burned by insanely steep contracts in the past; e.g. Arod, CC & Tex.

Scherzer’s agent Scott Boras, who knows a thing or two about the Yankees, stated Wednesday that Scherzer would give the Yankees a World Series caliber rotation. “I can’t predict what the Yankees are going to do, but a guy like Max fits in with their starting rotation to develop a World Series caliber set, similar to what they’ve had in the past.” He said that adding Scherzer would be similar to the Yankees of the 90’s who dominated for a decade. “You can find when Clemens was the number 1 or when Mussina was the number 1, Pettitte, they won a lot of world championships with that formula.”

With money tied up in CC and Tanaka, Cash might be a little leery of spending big again. But with Kuroda still undecided about pitching next season and Greene being traded to Detroit, the team needs starting pitching. Scherzer doesn’t have a lot of milage on his arm and he will be 30 until July, there is a lot of upside to bringing him to the Bronx. The Yankees m.o. has always been to spend big on big names, so why stop now?