[Scotty doesn't know]

So then why didn't we get Cliff Lee if we offered all the money in the world? We could have just paid the Mariners enough money to buy a new pitcher if that's how baseball works.

So basically you're saying the Yankees are doing baseball a favor and producing all these good prospects and then dealing them off?

What in the world are you talking about?!! The Yankees did not get Lee because of a dispute with the Mariners concerning a prospect, NOT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY! It was about a damage good being a prospect that was offered and talks were severed because of it. Sometimes a team may want a prospect, thats just how it is. Mariners probably needed a big time prospect instead of the money.

You are crazy if you think that the Yankees have the prospects to offer teams. They simply buy off contracts when a team just wants as much money as possible. And outbid the next team (when ever that is the case).

In my post, by saying that "they would not have to worry about their farm system," this means that they can out bid other teams for players services but if they have to go into their farm system to get players they would not have anything of true major league substance.