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What Brett Gardner’s Big Extension Means for Yankees’ Top Outfield Prospects

class="ui-droppable">For the New York Yankees, there is no time like the present. With a 'win-now' edict superseding the desire to develop and cultivate prospects, the team awarded over $500 million in contracts to veterans this winter.

The latest expenditure, Brett Gardner's four-year, $52 million extension, guaranteed a vital cog in New York's outfield for years to come. Coupled with the free-agent acquisitions of Carlos Beltran and Jacoby Ellsbury, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has an entire outfield signed through at least the 2016 season.

With Alfonso Soriano and Ichiro Suzuki under contract through 2014, the Yankees have five 30-or-older outfielders, ranging from future Cooperstown-bound stars to MVP candidates to a homegrown success story.

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