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Watching the San Diego Padres make a few splashy moves serves as another reminder that the New York Yankees can’t go “all-in.” Winning is rarely an inexpensive proposition, and the New York Yankees have rarely – if ever – been bashful when it came to spending what it takes to compete. “Baseball is not just a sport anymore; we are a business,” the late George Steinbrenner once said. “We are show business.

(Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) The motto may be “anything goes” for the year 2020, but the New York Yankees will not be following along with a Blake Snell trade. The 2020 season ended in despair for the New York Yankees. A nail-biting Game 5 concluded with yet another home run given up by Aroldis Chapman sailing deep into the San Diego night. As this moment transpired, Blake Snell was donning the Tampa Bay Rays logo.

ESNY Graphic, Getty Images The New York Yankees still haven’t inked DJ LeMahieu to a multi-year deal. What would happen if they don’t? The New York Yankees should be waking up each morning this offseason with one item on their to-do list: Sign DJ LeMahieu. Instead, it seems they’ve become distracted and are ignoring the real task at hand, much to the dismay of Yankees fans across the world and the joy of various MLB teams drooling over the possibility of snagging the highly coveted second baseman.