Yankees are paying Stanton thru 2028 basically $32 M per
Judge if he averages 40 homers
$25-30 M
They have Hicks 7/$70
0.0 they are paying Betts $30 M. The Red Sox will win the 2019 WS before the Yankees sign Betts
Gleyber Torres
Gary Sanchez
Yankees will be in trouble to stay under cap with an OF of Gardner/Tachman- Hicks - Stanton- Judge
I agree that Betts to the Yankees is 0.0. But for almost none of these reasons.
Betts won't make it to UFA, IMO. Either he signs for the 90% of Trout contract (even if he's isn't 90% of Trout) with Boston, or they trade him to another team who gives him that deal.
If he makes it to UFA, that number goes up. Not substantially, this isn't the 80s with George Steinbrenner, but it's not 0.0.
If Stanton doesn't opt out, and there's no reason to believe he will, the Marlins kick in $30m and the AAV on his contract is $23m per. It was a big reason why they made that trade rather than diving into UFA this year with Harper/Machado.
Hicks's contract is either tradeable if he recovers from his elbow injury, and eatable if they don't.
Tauchman isn't a barrier to a Betts signing.
Judge I believe will be 31 when he hits UFA. Since the evidence of a guy his size holding up in the outfield might be isolated to Giancarlo Stanton, it's not a lock he gets a mega deal at UFA.
I'll grant you Sanchez/Torres, and though they print more money than they could spend, they haven't been very inclined to do so the latter half of this decade. This is why I'd put it somewhere between 10-15% rather than the stone cold lock of a Boston mega star making it to FA in his prime it used to be.