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

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.

No one in the projected lineup should come close to replicating Soto but Steinbrenner pointed to improvements in defense, pitching and more.