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I doubt Crawford was a top priority but he was on the list of players to get or consider depending on what occurred to the Lee sweepstakes. Yankees definitely wanted Lee as their first major signing (not counting resigning Jeter or Riveria).
Crawford would have been their next priority but they spent too much time going after Lee that all they could do was attempt to drive up the price to retaliate when Red Sox kept driving up the prices on players Yankees wanted. Red Sox managed to make the Yankees spend almost $80 million on just keeping Jeter and Riveria when Yankees kept saying they wanted to spend much less than both of their asking prices.
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