"The Yankees’ priority is pitching, and Cashman met with Teixeira at the request of the agent Scott Boras, who also represents starters Derek Lowe and Oliver Perez and outfielder Manny Ramirez. Boras was present at the meeting with Teixeira, who was visiting family in Maryland. The Yankees would love to add Teixeira, a switch-hitter with power who has won two Gold Gloves. But it is unlikely they could sign both Teixeira and Sabathia, to whom they offered a six-year, $140 million deal on Nov. 14 (Boston Globe)."
Classic Boras move here. He is looking to drive up the price on Teixeira, and make teams like the Angels and Red Sox worry. It could work, but I think both those teams know that the Yankees are going to sign a pitcher or two, and even they will not have deep enough wallets to sign Teixeira on top of that. My thought is that after inquiring how much Teixeira would cost the Yanks, they quickly switched gears to talking about Derek Lowe, but only time will tell. Teixeira did say that he wanted to be signed before Christmas.
-BMack
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