I am as much disappointed as Red Sox fans with this signing. Peronsally, I do think Yankees overpaid for the average throwing arm. Guys like Furcal are making $13 mil a year, pitchers who have losing record gets 11 mil per year and a closer get $9 mil a year, in that regard the $14 mil a year for the best player in the free agency makes sense…. Pats, what was our reaction when Red Sox gave 4 year contract to the aging Catcher(???) last year???? The reason I am disappointed is that Bernie not going to get to play fulltime. I still think he has 2 more years in his fall of fame career. Last year he had the worst season and no one knows exactly why the stats went down. If Yankees have a genius like Pats who can predict future, the organization would have saved so much money…. I hope BOSS will find out soon about him.... Looking at the contract, I say posada is the most overpaid player in the Yankees organization… Posada should only play 705 of the game so he can be fresh during the playoffs…. Yankees need to sign a good backup Catcher .. Molina??? heheheh DWI said “The poor guys had to suffer 35-90 mills loss this year due to lux tax and all.” >>> DWI, I am surprised that you really thought Yankees lost the money. I couldn’t find the contract deal between Yankees and YES. Yankees got a lot lesser than the actual value, that we know why... no wonder every organization wants to have their own tv network… Mets have it now, Angels is planning for it and others will follow soon One thing I have to give prop to Yankees is that with this signing they made Red Sox scratching their head…. Red Sox have no idea this was coming. Yankees filled the need for Centerfielder and leadoff hitter with one player. With this singing Yankees got better and crippled their archrival from the same division….. wots Luchhino plan now??? It took him few months to fill the GM position and may take a month or 2 to find the replacement(s) for Damon. The irony is Luchhino needed 2 people to fill the void left by Theo and may have to do the same with Damon’s departure How come none is talking about Blue Jays??? They have a pretty good offseason... Red Sox have to worried about them not Yankees now... Uncle chips and other from north of the border, where are ya ppl???