Yanks have offers out on other players, no traction with Cano

The Yankees signed Brian McCann to a five-year, $85 million contract on Saturday and that doesn't mean they're done grabbing everyone they can.

The Yankees have offers out on other free agents. This offseason is way too important for them to sit and wait. No traction w/ Cano.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) November 24, 2013

As Olney notes, the Yankees have offers out on other players, and that's not really a surprise when you consider that the Yanks had been looking at almost all of the top free-agents no the market. What would be surprising, however, is who those free-agents are, and how much the Yankees have offered them.

Players like Shin-Soo Choo, Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury and Stephen Drew have been on the Yankees' radar this offseason, and they have appeared to be very engaged with all of them.

The Yankees have also been looking at relievers such as Grant Balfour. With Mariano Rivera retired, Brian Cashman said during the GM meetings that he isn't sure if David Robertson is ready yet to take over the closer role. Maybe the Yanks have an offer out on Balfour.

It was reported by Joel Sherman of the NY Post yesterday that the Yankees are starting to feel "more upbeat" about Hiroki Kuroda returning next season. If that's the case, they might have an offer extended to him, hoping he'll accept it to fill out one more spot in the rotation while the wait to see if Masahiro Tanaka will ever be posted.

Either way, the Yankees are acting this offseason like we never thought they would. They appear to be going right after free-agents, and wasting no time in scooping them up before other teams can get their hands on them. That was the way they did business with McCann, as their offer was enough to take him off the market before the Winter Meetings, when he was expected to make a decision.

For a team that entered the offseason with a ton of questions and holes to fill, they have done a good job over the past couple of days to show that they plan on being championship contenders next season.

Olney also noted that there is no traction in talks with Robinson Cano. Last night it was reported that the Yankees were going to meet with Cano's representatives this week, and it seems like neither side is willing to move from the amount of money they're looking for.

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