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Should the New York Yankees Take a Risk on Grady Sizemore for Right Field?

Steinbrenner apparently wasn't kidding.

Back in March, the New York Yankees' principal owner told the New York Times that he wants the team's payroll cut by $20 million to get below MLB's $189 million luxury tax threshold for 2014.

As ESPN's Buster Olney explained in a recent column, general manager Brian Cashman is simpatico with that philosophy. In the past, Yankees ownership and upper management has gone over his head to sign Bernie Williams, Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Soriano to exorbitant contracts against Cashman's recommendation.

But according to the New York Post's Joel Sherman, the Yankees are serious about getting under that luxury tax threshold—so serious that the team isn't even interested in offering Torii Hunter a two-year, ...

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