No one objected. Everyone held their peace. This was a marriage that deserved to continue considering how both sides felt about each other. So DJ LeMahieu and the Yankees found their way to a reunion.

The sides were in agreement Friday on a six-year, $90 million contract. The structure mattered to the Yankees, in particular, because they have wanted to keep the average value low to address other issues — scream “starting pitching” here — and still try to stay under the $210 million luxury tax threshold.

And by the end of business Friday, they also were in agreement with Corey Kluber on a one-year $11 million deal, pending a physical.

So after a so-far quiet offseason, the Yankees suddenly behaved like the Yankees. They had reached agreement with their best player from the past two years and a two-time Cy Young award winner. They almost certainly will have the largest payroll in the game again as these two deals alone will nudge them toward $210 million.

The Kluber agreement is layered with risk. He has started just eight games the past two years due to a variety of injuries, including a shoulder ailment the limited him to one inning in 2020. But the Yankees always had an edge in insight about Kluber’s health. Eric Cressey is overseeing the righty’s rehabilitation and he also was hired last offseason as the Yankees’ director of health and performance.

Kluber’s mound audition for about 25 teams Wednesday was at Cressey’s performance center in Florida. He looked good and the Yankees pounced. Kluber arguably was the majors’ best pitcher from 2014-18 with the Indians and if he even approaches that, he would fill the Yankees’ glaring need — a No. 2 starter to stack behind Gerrit Cole.

But if No. 2 starter was the greatest need, the Yankees had established LeMahieu as their priority. They were frozen until they knew if he was returning — and for how much.

In the end, this was a compromise by two sides that enjoyed their partnership the past two years and wanted to keep it going.

LeMahieu rightfully wanted to outdo the four years at $92 million Josh Donaldson received last offseason from the Twins entering his age 34 season and coming off a strong year, but two injury-filled ones before that. LeMahieu enters his age-32 campaign after finishing fourth and third for AL MVP in his two Yankees seasons.

But factors were working against LeMahieu: 1. The pandemic lowered revenues around MLB last year with projections for more of the same in 2021, leaving many clubs either out of the top of the market or expecting discounts. 2. Even those interested in LeMahieu believed it was futile because, in the end, the Yankees would step up to get him. The Mets, for example, were not engaged in any significant way. 3. The Yankees were holding the line, even for their best player, because they are determined to try to stay below the $210 million luxury tax threshold.

Still, the Yankees had to give in somewhere, because as badly as LeMahieu wanted to return to the site of his greatest success, the Yankees wanted equally to keep him. With cracking $100 million in total seeming less plausible, the LeMahieu camp established $90 million as a must-reach demarcation. To get there, the Yankees were willing to take the age risk — LeMahieu will turn 33 in July — by extending to a six-year term.

Why?

Because for luxury-tax purposes, the annual average of the contract is counted. So a five-year, $90 million deal would cost $18 million toward the payroll and a six-year, $90 million is $15 million. The Yankees project to roughly $30 million under the $210 million threshold. So every dollar — or million dollars — helps fit more into the package.

I would argue that the penalties are not severe enough that the Yankees should worry about being even a three-time tax offender in 2021. That would cost them 50 cents on every dollar between $210 million and $230 million. And if they signed a free agent given the qualifying offer next offseason they would lose their second-best and fifth-best draft picks for 2022 and $1 million in international pool funds. But who knows if compensation for the qualifying offer will be done away with in a compromise with the union (it was offered to try to start last season), and who knows if there even will be a luxury-tax system in a new collective bargaining agreement, when the old one expires after this year.

Still, let’s accept Hal Steinbrenner at his word — that as the team that takes in the most revenue, the Yankees lost by far the most last year and will again this year. The Yankees also pay $80 million or so each Feb. 1 on the bond for building the new Yankee Stadium, though that payment allows them to reduce their revenue sharing payment and — oh, yeah — there was no revenue sharing last year and it will be limited this season. But, we digress. The Yankees took big hits, and that is why Steinbrenner wants to avoid a tax in 2021.

The LeMahieu deal gave the Yankees a chance to do this, and they quickly followed by securing Kluber as well.

For 2 ¹/₂ months, the Yankees waited and waited. The key to moving forward was finalizing a deal with their best player. That happened.

No one objected. The sides came to a peaceful resolution.