Buck Showalter thinks if MLB does a year or longer suspension for A-Rod, its going to act as a big reward for the Yankees instead of hurting them. MLB would have helped them get under the luxury tax threshold and they can splurge again without worrying about the the massive tax penalty (drops from 50% to just 17%).
Also thinks the Os would lose catcher Matt Wieters because they wouldn't be able to compete with the money the Yankees would have saved from A-Rod alone.
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