How exactly is luxary tax calculated. Is it based on end of season payroll, begining of season payroll, or probably the actual amount of payroll you spend spent throughout the entire season counting in payroll before and after trades? If the Yankees wanted to trade Posada, I could easily see him resigning with them in the offseason. If Arod wanted to catch every 5th day I would let him. I could careless where he would play, SS, 2nd, RF, anywhere would be fine with me. Getting Arod would easily top the excitement I felt when we got Nomar, and that was just awesome.