Let Yankees get Tulowitzki from Colorado for nothing.

It's the Godfather offer: nothing.  It's what the Yankees should have offered to Texas when it was desperate to unload the huge contract of Alex Rodriguez before the 2004 season.  No other team was willing to assume A-Rod's contract even though he was the best player in the game.  Instead, to satisfy commissioner Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, the Yankees offered an actual player of value: Alfonso Soriano.  The Yankees could have had both Rodriguez and Soriano.

Why Rockies are in major bind with Tulowitzki, Gonzalez
By Joel Sherman November 10, 2014  New York Post

The Rockies missed their best window to trade Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez...

Now that ownership has finally agreed that trading the pair just might be for the best, the duo’s value has never been lower because – yep – they are oft injured and have rising salaries...

he (Tulowitzki) is owed six years at $118 million. In this market that is a bargain – if Tulowitzki is healthy. But is he? ...

But to trade for him, you would have to assume the $118 million (unless the Rockies are eating some of that) plus give up elite prospects. After all, the Rockies can’t just give him away as a salary dump.
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Why not?  If the Yankees had elite prospects they would have been playing the last two years on the Yankees.  Letting the Yankees just assume Tulo's contract helps both teams.

Bowie Kuhn 1982 by Major League Baseball
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Should rich teams be allowed to buy players from poor teams?  Thursday, July 3, 2014

Bowie Kuhn was the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984.  Kuhn basically stopped significant player sales when he blocked Oakland As owner Charles O. Finley from selling players: pitcher Rollie Fingers and outfielder Joe Rudi to Boston and pitcher Vida Blue, 1971 AL Cy Young award winner, to the Yankees.  Kuhn later also prevented Finley from selling Blue to Cincinnati...

Allowing the flow of cash would infuse poor teams with ... cash.  Isn't that the American way?  Organized professional sports is weighed down with corporate socialism.  What's so good about that?
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Bowie Kuhn is standing in the way of progress?  Lock Selig in his room and let Rob Manfred take over.  Maybe Manfred is not a stiff and will let good stuff happen.