You keep asking what he should have done differently and I already said – Cash should have signed Lilly over Igawa, he should have traded farnsowrth and picked up a solid eighth inning guy like spiers, He should have picked up a solid lefty out of the pen like Okajima or walker. He shuld have payed Loretta a little more than everyone else so we would have a decent bench. He should have picked up a better backup catcher- any one in the majors is better than nieves. He should have kept sheff and gave him one more yr after this yr ( a short term contract) and taught him how to play first in the off season – sheff is an amazing athlete and could have e asily learned first base in the five month off season. He couldn’t learn it in the week leading up to the playoffs but five months is plenty of time considering he already played third.

I wanted to trade Cabrera for Gonzalez (as u said hindsight is 20 -20) but now melky sucks and Gonzalez is injured so I guess the trade would have been a bust for both teams. I actually did predict a huge fall off for Cabrera. He was waay over-rated last yr and the limited playing time is stunting his development. I would have traded Farnsworth for a catcher and a minor leaguer with some potential – saltamachia ( we would have spiers we don’t need farnsworthless.) I would have traded pavano for anything we could get even if we had to pay part of his contract. I would have picked up pettitte. I would have traded RANDY for owings even if we had to pay the majority of his last yr and didn’t get any one else with owings. And if they wouldn’t give us owings – I wouldn’t have traded randy at all.

You say let cash have another yr and if he cant fix things then fire him? So u will sacrifice this yr and next to give cash a chance? That is the worst idea I have ever heard. This is cash’s team now- he has had it for a yr and a half. If they cant get in the playoffs this yr. He doesn’t deserve to be in the majors any more nevermind be a GM for the yanks. He took a 200 million dollar payroll and cant make the playoffs with it. I canrt believe how much support cash has gotten from the fans for not making a single good move in his entire career. Cash basically has as good a batting average in terms of moves made as wil nieves. He has made maybe three good moves out of 20 in the last yr and a half. When did he earn all of this respect that u ppl are giving him?

Sean, Igawa wasn’t a bad trade? He costs 48 million and he cant even pitch in the majors right now. Who cares how young he is if he is only helping tampa? I love how ur excuse is its just money … Cash’s whole plan was to cut payroll then he wastes 48 million on garbage and a fan says don’t worry cash its just money. Well, zito would have just been money too, might as well have tried him out for a bit ya know – see how that worked cuz its just money ya know. And u say if it doesn’t work we can just trade him? No if it doesn’t work we just flushed another 48 million down the toilet due to cash’s genius. That’s 88 million between him and pavano down the drain. You cant trade garbage without paying the entire salary. If it doesn’t work then cash is fired no ifs ands or buts.

The Yankees have a pro scouting department to do that.

Most “Asst. GM’s” in baseball aren’t in the talent end of things. Most of them handle the financial side of the business.

There are some exceptions but, that’s the general rule.