Friday, April 29, 2011

New GM in the Bronx




The storied franchise which leads all of baseball with 28 world series titles have announced the signing of a new GM today, ex-Pittsburgh Pirates GM Jordan set to take over the team. The Yankees old successful GM Nick retired a couple seasons ago, and since then the Yankees have experienced a number of intern GMs. Jordan is expected to bring some stability with the club, who had some success with Pittsburgh. He was able to bring Pittsburgh to three consecutive winning seasons, the first time since the early 1990s.
"I'm excited to get a chance to run the Yankees, they have always been my favorite team growing up so its cool to get a chance to run them."Jordan will have to deal with different managerial obstacles in New York, as he will be going from dealing with the team with one of the smallest budgets in Pittsburgh, to having a team with the Largest budget. However, the Yankees do have to pay a ton of cash in revenue sharing each season, and due to not having a stable GM the last couple of seasons, the Yankees are currently sixteen million dollars in the red. They are going to have to get close to 75M during the remainder of the season to stay in the black do to revenue sharing.

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