Cash: No Negotiations For Jeet, Mo, and Joe

post from Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog on 09 February 2010 10:04:18 AM. © Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog

Despite their iconic status, the Yankees have no plans to discuss new contracts with Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera until after the season -- and the same goes for the manager, Joe Girardi, general manager Brian Cashman told the New York Post in a story published Tuesday.

The contracts of all three are entering their final year, meaning the Yankees' all-time career hits leader and the Major Leagues' all-time postseason saves leader can be free agents next offseason. And Girardi, who signed a three-year contract prior to the 2008 season, will face a year in which he will not have a contract beyond the current season.

Nevertheless, the team will not veer from its position not to negotiate contact extensions with impending free agents.

"I don't think you can separate one from the other," Cashman told the Post. "I am not saying they are the same, but the questions will come, 'If you did one, why didn't you do the other?' If this was Kansas City, it would be different -- but it's not."

This has been team policy for some time now so I'm not surprised by this at all. It also doesn't mean that either of the three are likely to go anywhere. I expect these contracts to be taken care of by December.