Sherman's take on today's events

Joel Sherman said the Yankees signed Mark Teixeira with an eye on next year's free-agent class. In the interest of brevity, the class is pretty barren, save for Matt Holliday.

It also didn't hurt that the Yankees prevented him from going to Boston.

Sherman also says the Yankees will look to trade at least one of the following: Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Xavier Nady and Nick Swisher. All but Swisher are in their walk years.