Don't expect the New York Yankees to match the Los Angeles Dodgers in spending anytime soon, judging from their controlling owner's recent comments. Yankees chairman Hal Steinbrenner responded to the Dodgers' run of recent signings,

During a Tuesday appearance on YES Network's "Yankees Hot Stove" program, team owner Hal Steinbrenner made quite a bold claim about his current squad compared to the one that completed a trip to the 2024 World Series, where the Yankees fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games.

The CBT has increasingly become an issue for Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner. As it stands, the Yankees are a fourth-time CBT payor and expected to pay north of $43 million in luxury tax, according to Cot’s Baseball Contracts.