{"id":123434,"date":"2025-11-28T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=123434"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:43:08","slug":"frazier-fires-back-clint-frazier-calls-out-yankees-owner-hal-steinbrenner-for-playing-the-poverty-card-criticizing-payroll-strategy-player-development-and-questioning-how-a-multi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=123434","title":{"rendered":"FRAZIER FIRES BACK: Clint Frazier calls out Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner for \u201cplaying the poverty card,\u201d criticizing payroll strategy, player development, and questioning how a multi-billion-dollar franchise manages revenue amid free agent competition..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1451093847-e1764177817192.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Clint Frazier Calls Out Yankees Owner Hal Steinbrenner for \u2018Playing the Poverty Card,\u2019 Criticizing Payroll Strategy and Player Development Approach While Questioning How a Multi-Billion-Dollar Franchise Manages Revenue Amid Free Agent Competition-congthang123\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/>Dustin Satloff\/Getty ImagesClint Frazier doesn\u2019t play for the New York anymore, but that won\u2019t stop him from taking owner Hal Steinbrenner to task for his management of the team\u2019s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0Yankees\u00a0outfielder turned podcaster took Steinbrenner to task for his recent comments where he claimed the team does not necessarily turn a profit despite being one of the most valuable in all of sports.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier played five of his seven big-league seasons (2017-21) with the Yankees, amassing 29 home runs and 97 RBIs in 807 plate appearances in 228 games. He had a .761 OPS in pinstripes before he was traded to the\u00a0Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<h2>Clint Frazier Called Hal Steinbrenner Out For \u2018Playing The Poverty Card\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Under Hal Steinbrenner\u2019s leadership the Yankees have gone from the Evil Empire to just another big-market club, much to the dismay of fans. They have been passed by the\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers, and even the\u00a0New York Mets, for high-end free agents.<\/p>\n<p>So Steinbrenner\u2019s comments this week, where he reiterated the $300 million annual payroll is unsustainable and said not to assume the Yankees are profitable despite a reported more than $700 million in annual revenue, rubbed many the wrong way. Frazier was one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man that owns a team worth $8.2 billion is kind of crying poverty,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cIf indeed the\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0did profit $700 million, and then Hal Steinbrenner does not spend like a man that owned a company that made $700 million in profit \u2026 if you\u2019re saying no one is making more money than you, make sure it\u2019s going toward a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spending obviously does not correlate to winning, but it doesn\u2019t hurt. The Yankees had the third-highest payroll in MLB in 2025, behind both the Dodgers and\u00a0Mets, and of course made the postseason for the sixth time in the past seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers have won the World Series in consecutive years \u2014 and won their division, the NL West, in 13 of the past 14 seasons \u2014 but the Mets\u2019 spending netted them just 83 wins and a second-place finish in the NL East.<\/p>\n<h2>The Yankees Are Trying To Optimize Player Development To Their Own Detriment<\/h2>\n<p>Frazier came up in the\u00a0Cleveland Guardians\u00a0system but was traded in 2016 in a package that brought reliever Andrew Miller to the Bronx. He has seen the team\u2019s player development apparatus first hand, and it is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can find diamonds in the rough and needles in the haystacks of what players actually bring to the table,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cI think that\u2019s one of the better things that they\u2019ve built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Frazier was a top-5 draft pick in his draft year (2013) and spoke first hand about how some of the Yankees\u2019 developmental issues in relying on technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can become a little bombarding in regards to, you lose just the playing side of things,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cYou start to think about the things that the Yankees are highlighting and the things that they want you to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ultimately puts you in a state of \u2018I\u2019m not free flowing anymore as a player, because now I\u2019ve got this thought up here that\u2019s definitely taken away of the thought of focusing on the task at hand.\u2019 It can be confusing for the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Satloff\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":123435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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