This is Rod Beaton's most recent column.
Bottom line holds true for cash-rich teams Money still talks in baseball.
Sometimes it's in ways more subtle than others. What we see less often are their expenditures above and beyond the capabilities of other clubs on drafted players who are said to be unsignable but are unsignable only for teams unprepared to ante up big time. What we want to comment on here is the big spenders buying the best on the international scene. Not always but often involved are Florida, Toronto and the New York Mets, who tend to be more selective and pick their spots. It's almost hideous how the Yankees do things.