If the rumors are true. If Alex Rodriguez comes back for 10 years and 275 million. And if the Yankees then decide that they’re going to go 4/50 million for Mike Lowell. (Which is another piece of overpaid bad contract, by the way).
Then there would be a reasonably good player stuck on the bench.
And there would be teams, that even with the Yankeefied contract, that would be interested in him.
Put it this way, if the dominos start falling and Lowell moves across the diamond? Johnny Damon will be on the market faster than you can say “I was on-screen for the last moments of Cheap Seats.