01/30: Update: Yankees Can Sign Up to 8 Type A/B Free Agents
Posted by: Patrick
Updating a story posted earlier today, it turns out that the Yankees are not at their limit for Type A or Type B free agents. MLB.com's Barry M. Bloom, the source of the original story, has come back to correct the report.
Peter Abraham reported this as well, after speaking with Brian Cashman.
Under rules stated in the Basic Agreement, an exception was made this offseason because of the high number of free agents on the market -- a combined 216 between six-year free agents filing before Nov. 14 and players who weren't tendered contracts on Dec. 12, said Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of labor relations and human resources. ...
The Yankees have already signed five Type A free agents -- CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Mark Teixeira and their own Andy Pettitte and Damaso Marte. The quota, as defined in the collectively bargained rules established by management and the Players Association, state, "if there are from 39 to 62 players [filing], no team can sign more than three."
The Yankees have already signed five Type A free agents -- CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Mark Teixeira and their own Andy Pettitte and Damaso Marte. The quota, as defined in the collectively bargained rules established by management and the Players Association, state, "if there are from 39 to 62 players [filing], no team can sign more than three."
Peter Abraham reported this as well, after speaking with Brian Cashman.
