Matt Holliday figures to balance Yanks’ batting order
OXON HILL, Md. — Matt Holliday figures to balance the New York Yankees’ lineup while not adding a lengthy payroll commitment to a team trying to get under the luxury-tax threshold within the next two years.
“Our preference would be to find someone that would be a short-term contract, that allows us to retain our draft pick, that provides us payroll flexibility as we move forward, doesn’t block any kids going forward in the future, and obviously Matt Holliday would qualify under all those circumstances,” Cashman said Monday at the winter meetings.