
As far as where the Yankees and the Pirates stand, it's about the money and I wrote about that in WHY IT'S ABOUT THE BURNETT MONEY yesterday. The Yankees want to split the Burnett contract down the middle, where as the Pirates want to pay $10 million of his remaining salary to take him on. Look, if I know the Yankees, they could probably convince the Pirates to take at least $13 of that salary and we can call it a day. The Yankees could then move forward and pick up the final pieces of the 2012 World Championship Yankees puzzle, i.e. Johnny Damon and Eric Chavez. But right now, those guys are on hold until the Yankees and the Pirates figure out the money situation. Oh, and remember when Garrett Jones, the young Pirates lefty was in the mix? He's no longer in play, according to several sources (HERE.) Right now it's just about unloading AJ Burnett and settling on a number the Pirates are willing to pay.

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