Cashman to Philly? Or Washington?
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It’s May and if you’re waiting for the story about Brian Cashman signing a contract extension with the Yankees, keep waiting.
As he did in 2005, Cashman will likely wait until his contract is up before negotiating with the Yankees. That assumes (and maybe this will be a big assumption if they won’t make the playoffs), that the Steinbrenner brothers will want him back.
One columnist in Philadelphia wondered if Cashman would be a fit there to replace the retiring Pat Gillick.
Others in baseball have said Cashman could make sense for the Nationals if they dump Jim Bowden. Cashman went to college in D.C. and has many friends there.
Know this much: The Yankees need Cashman more than he needs them. There’s nobody in the organization with enough experience to take over as general manager.
Scouting director Damon Oppenheimer is a sharp guy but his focus has been on amateur players. Assistant GM Jean Afterman has dealt largely with international affairs, legal matters and contract negotiations. Oppenheimer or Afterman could do the job, but there would be a steep learning curve.
Cashman doesn’t talk much about his situation. But the parameters of the job have changed since 2005. As George Steinbrenner slips into the background, Hank and Hal Steinbrenner have more authority. As the terrain changes, Cashman has to decide whether it suits him.
It’s too early to make the call now. But Cashman is still a young man and perhaps he wants another challenge.
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I’m sure there are many foolish bloggers who have their resumes (supported by oodles of their best chicken little blog posts) ready to submit to Hank & Hal for consideration.
On livejournal, we’d call the comments likely to result from this post a “wankfest”
Lemme get my popcorn
Who cares if Cash leaves he hasnt signed a good pitcher in years. I could go on forever with all the clowns he has signed over the years.
Smoke a pound and it’ll be hysterical.
Sorry Pete but I don’t buy that Hank and Hal are the only two making decisions. Niether of those guys know what they’re talking about half the time. There’s someone whispering in their ears. I mean cmon, How you can someone be running the team and need the GM to explain Joba rules of last year when everyone in the world knew about them?
Brian Cashman will remain as Yankee GM. End of question
The wankfest, not the mistakes.
I think it was Ken Rosenthal on XM this morning talking about just this subject, Pete. Not only did he mention Philly and Washington as possible destinations, he cited Los Angeles Dodgers, the Mets (if they don’t turn it around in a big way) and Seattle. I think there were a couple of others that he threw in. He basically said, teams would get rid of who they have in order to have Cashman. Certainly makes me think that he’s taken for granted around here, as everything and everyone in NY is.
The Steinbrenners had already offered him an extension, but as Cashman doesn’t like to negotiate with players before the contract is up (in most cases, anyway), so he’s said that he will think about his contract when the time is appropriate. Without a successor in place or in mind, and believing that the Steinbrenners are on board with the direction Cashman is taking the organization in terms of home-grown players and overall player development, I can’t imagine they would rescind their offer (with the possible exception being the Yankees finish so far out of playoff contention).
I guess the bottom line is the ball will be in Cashman’s court. Unless someone can give me a better alternative to Cashman, I would prefer he hang around here a while longer - at least long enough to groom a bona fide replacement/successor.
Having more authority doesn’t necessarily mean they have ALL authority, Eugie. It’s just different from before.
The wankfest has begun.
Take a hit & pass it around. It’ll soon become important to pass the popcorn around too.
“On livejournal, we’d call the comments likely to result from this post a “wankfest””
I thought we agreed to stop referring to the Diet of Worms.
How Do , I for one hope the Yankees sign Cashman . He is a Real Home-Grown Yankee . In the last year of his contract he did not sell away the Farm System just to save himself . He had the Yankees long term interests at heart .
I hope they sign him !!!
Very Nice !!!
By the way Pete, how old is that photo of Brian and under what circumstances was it taken? He looks very, very happy and relaxed!
If Cashman leaves so be it. He has had the most tools, largest available $$$ and lots of opportunities, yet his team has not been able to pull away from the pack. With the tools, and $$$ he should have much better results. There are alot of teams that are real close to the Yankees with much less to work with. He obviously has no eye for pitching talent. To his credit he does have invaluable experience, and knows his way around the Steinbrenner sitation. The guy the Mets has is no better, but he at times does a better job getting pitchers than Cashman.
Two words: Gene Michael. I am not joking either here. He is the guy that effectively gave us our four World Championships in the late 1990’s. I think we need him back as General Manager.
Stick has no interest in being a GM again. Doesn’t want the grief and doesn’t want the time commitment it would take to do the job.
He enjoys what he is doing now. A little scouting and consulting. He’s not an option.
As some fans seem to want Cashman out the door, ask yourself something.
If he was so bad in his job, why are teams in the game interested in his services?
Doesn’t the fact that teams want him make you think that perhaps he’s better in the gig than those who dislike him think he is?
Didn’t CASH$ say he wanted to reduce payroll, only to turn around and fork over 46 million for Kei Igawa?
Didn’t CASH$ say he wanted to go with youth only to sign vets like Ensgberg and Hawkins?
CASH$ had 8 years to build a bullpen… We’re still waiting aren’t we?
The Yanks will motor on with, or without, CASH$.
I like him… want him to stay… but I won’t lose sleep if he leaves.
Cash$ said no to Papi Ortiz when THE BOSS wanted to sign him…. CASH$ failed to get VLAD, yielding to THE BOSS when we signed SHEFF.
We play Giambi everyday…
We refuse to see what Shelley Duncan can do if given 400 ABs… I guess they already have their eyes on Mark Teixiera huh?
Anyway… for all his faults… Cash$ has made some good moves… BUT… his biggest mistake was letting Matsuzaka go to BOSTON.
WHY?
So many reasons… He let Beckett go to BOS… fine… we understand… BUT… to compound the problem by letting Dice-K go to BOS, and then signing IGAWA…. ARGH!
Even Hideki Okijima called NY and offered his services… WE SAID NO THANKS!
(1) Why let BOS get footing in JAPAN and that market?
(2) Yanks needed a reliable pitcher like Matsuzaka. Not b/c of his hype… BUT… with the kids coming… Wang-Dice, ANDY and the kids would have been perfect moving fwd.
Cash underestimated BOS… CASH$ failed to understand the posting process…
I understand why Beckett and Johan got away… I’m still at a loss at how Cash got played.
BOS felt they would dedicate 100 million for Dice-K. They understood that… They knew if they won the posting… Dice-K either signed w/ them, or stayed in Japan. Theo and BOS were brilliant to offer that much in the posting process… Yanks need DICE more, but BOS swooped in and stole him away.
DICE wanted to come to NY…
FORGET JOHAN… If Yanks had DICE this year… We still have our kids, we own the FAR EAST market, and we’re just as good as we would be if we had JOHAN. SO, for this mistake… CASH deserves A LOT of blame.
What does he do? He grabs Igawa? ARGH!
I admit… who could fathom 51.1 million would be the posting… BUT to hear that NY offered around 30 million… STUPID~!
That decides it. Matthew gets the job.
Oo second thought … let’s try to re-sign Cashman.
I have another name to add to the list against Cashman: Carl Pavano. Can anybody tell me what we got out of that investment? I still don’t see anything we got from Pavano. All I see is hopefully one big insurance check, but we probably will not see that.
Why is it Cashman’s fault that Pavano couldn’t stay healthy? As much as he would want to, Cashman couldn’t break his butt.
ESPN just decided I needed to see a Verizon commercial in the middle of Pudge Rodriguez’s at bat.
I can’t blame CASH$ for Pavano… Nor do I fault him for giving up on Lilly, Vazquez and Contreras… I thought it was a great move to grab Weaver… He was good… young… pitching in DET.
CASH$’s biggest mistakes:
(1) Failure to build a bullpen in 8 years
(2) Saying no to Papi
(3) Giving in and grabbing SHEFF over VLAD
(4) Saying no to Okijima & DICE but paying for Igawa
(5) Kevin Brown!
Every team in baseball wanted Carl Pavano. The Red Sox, Mariners and Tigers all offered more money for his services.
After getting spurned by Pavano, the Red Sox gave over 20 million dollars to Matt Clement. How did that work out?
You can’t blame Cashman for Pavano. He got hurt and got unlucky that Pavano took the Yankees offer. Carl Pavano was one of the most sought after free agents that year. You can’t predict injuries.
If you want to blame him for Igawa, that’s fair game. Somebody messed up scouting Igawa and as the GM, that falls on his watch.
Dice-K? I don’t know how you blame the Yankees for not bidding 52 million dollars for Dice-K. He’s not a 100 million dollar pitcher and those bids are decided by ownership (when it gets to those crazy numbers) not the GM.
Like all GM’s, he’s had hits and he’s had misses.
The best way to judge him is looking at the overall state of the organization and decide if its in a good place. Just about everybody in baseball believes the Yankees are well positioned for future success. Especially after getting all the money and wasted roster spots off the books after this season.
Clearly, the Steinbrenners think so because they offered him an extension. Many other teams also think he has done a good job because he will have several opportunities to go elsewhere should he decide to leave.
When you have a guy who is well thought of in his particular industry, it often pays to keep him with your company.
The grass isn’t always greener elsewhere. Especially when it comes to working for the Steinbrenners. No small task.
I don’t necessarily blame CASH for NOT getting DICE-K… I just fault him for being played and not even having an idea of how the posting process and subsequent contract talks played hand-in-hand together…
The fact is the Yanks were willing to fork over close to 100 million for DICE… They just figured it would be 30 million for posting and then 70 million contract.
CASH got played by BOS…
I don;t fault him for not posting 50 million… but to be so far behind?
Anyway… life goes on… BUT, Yanks will function JUST FINE if CASH$ walks!
“As much as he would want to, Cashman couldn’t break his butt.”
I think Pavano already broke that on his own.
1. Building a bullpen nowadays is more by luck than design.
The White Sox spent nearly 30 million dollars on their bullpen in the off-season and it stinks. The Yankees have wasted millions on relief pitchers. Except for Kevin Towers in San Diego, who does with low cost castoffs and his own talent, who really builds bullpens these days? Its more like a crapshoot.
2. Big Papi? Where does he play? They had Jason Giambi, who around that time the team realized was going to be a DH.
3. Do you really think Brian Cashman could talk George Steinbrenner out of signing Gary Sheffield? Do you think he didn’t try? Vlad was in NY, ready to sign and George gave Sheffield a chance to finish the deal and he did.
You want to blame somebody for Big Papi and Sheffield? Blame George. Jason Giambi’s ridiculous contract made it tough to sign Ortiz and George wanted Sheffield. Its George’s team. He bid against himself for Giambi and he wanted Sheffield (because of Doc Gooden) over Vlad. That’s not on Cashman.
3. I explained above re: Dice-K. Okajima? Fair point and that was a miss.
4. Kevin Brown? Definitely a miss.
Problem is, those misses aren’t fireable offenses.
While we often discuss his misses, let’s talk about some of his hits.
2005: Pushed Wang and Cano on Torre and forced him to play kids in an effort to get the team going. That got them to the playoffs and those guys developed into stars.
Also found Aaron Small and Shaun Chacon and they saved the pitching staff.
2006: Didn’t give up on Melky Cabrera and gave him a chance to replace Matsui after he got hurt. A major reason why they made the playoffs. Melky is now becoming a star.
The Bobby Abreu trade. A steal and that has worked out very well.
2007: It was Cashman’s idea to put Joba in the bullpen and that seemed to work out pretty well.
As I said, he’s had hits and misses. He’s also made the playoffs every year he has been a GM and that’s no small feat.
Overall, he certainly has done enough to keep his job. The issue is, does he still want it?
(1) Bullpens are horrendously unpredictable, but the Yanks had a great (and overlooked) 1-2 punch of Rivera-Gordon when Cash signed him.
(2) *Everybody* said no to Papi, and the Yankees already had a 1B (Giambi, like it or not).
(3) That’s on Steinbrenner. Cashman has been on the record to say that he wanted Vlad (similarly, Cashman wanted to sign Carlos Beltran, not give up on Javy Vazquez–who has turned out to be pretty ace-like in the AL Central–trade for Randy Johnson).
(4) Again, everyone said no to Okajima, and no one knew he was going to be that great of a set-up man. As for Daisuke, Boston just blew everyone’s offer away. No one anticipated a $50 million offer just to talk to him.
(5) Considering the Yankees only gave up Weaver and spare parts for Brown, who had been one of the top pitchers in the NL the year before? Again, Brown didn’t work out in hindsight, but the opportunity cost there was virtually nil and the move itself made a lot of sense at that point in time.
As for those who want to harpoon Cashman for not signing a good starting pitcher–how many good pitchers have been available on the free agent market in the last decade? A.J. Burnett, maybe, but he carried injury risks, which has played out in Toronto. Likewise with Pedro, who also played out that way. Say what you want about Pavano, but every team in the majors wanted to sign him that off-season, and the Yankees got him for cheaper than other teams (including Boston) were purportedly willing to offer.
Cashman called up Chien-Ming Wang and re-signed Andy Pettitte–both excellent moves which have solidified the Yankee rotation this year and last. There are a lot of teams that would love to add two more-than-solid starters like that irrespective of their current pitching staffs.
*Last half-decade, excuse me, not past decade, re: signing starting pitching.
I agree about Andy Pettitte. I think he could have done a better job in convincing the ownership when we lost Andy the first time around that he was a valuable member to this team. He definitely was our most consistent pitcher at that time he was let go to Houston.
Cashman doesn’t need a new challenge; he wants a pay raise. If things turn out well this year for the team — especially Melky, Cano, and the young pitchers — he’ll be in a position to ask the Steins for some of the increased revenue which will follow the new digs.
one of my biggest criticisms of cashman is that he hasn’t created an organization that has assistant gms that other teams want for their gm positions. the red sox spun off byrnes to arizona. arizona is spinning off woodfork to someone soon. the indians had to promise antonnetti the gm job in the future or he would have left.
i would like to see a yankee gm who isn’t afraid to surround himself with talented people like shapiro did in cleveland,epstein did in boston, and byrnes has done in arizona.
This “needed to do a better job of convincing ownership” stuff makes no sense to me.
This is George Steinbrenner we are talking about. Not Hank or Hal.
George ORDERED Gene Michael to trade Bernie Williams. Told him to “find a home for him NOW”, after one of Bernie’s bad games.
Stick lied through his teeth, telling George, “nobody wants him”. That’s the only reason why he wasn’t traded.
George wanted to trade Andy Pettitte to the Phillies. Only Joe Torre leaking the info to the media kept the deal from happening.
When George would go off, nobody was going to convince him to do anything.
Brian Cashman is a pretty talented guy. But, he doesn’t own the team and when George decided to go off, not a lot of people could have stopped him in his heyday.
Don’t confuse the George of today with the George from 1973-2005. He was crazy. Not crazy like a fox. Crazy.
The only people who wanted to work for him loved the Yankees more than they liked him. A LOT of people in that organization were treated like dirt by George Steinbrenner over the years. Many of those years wasted from a baseball perspective.
That’s why the organization was a laughingstock for so many years. Its why both Hank and Hal left the Yankees the first time around. The only reason why the Yankees were able to rebuild under Stick and Buck Showalter was because George was suspended again by MLB.
When George was hands on, there wasn’t anything anybody could do if he was into one of his moods. You just hope you can clean up the mess after he would mess up the team.
Most of the bad Free agent Signings can be laid on the door step of Big George. Cashman was a Yes man until 3 yrs ago. Building thru the draft and In`tl free agent acquisations is thw wave of the future for the Bronx Bombers.I would stick with Brian
Randy,
That’s a two way street. I agree the Yankees would be better served with more people on the baseball side. But, that’s on ownership to give Cashman the money to do it. I don’t think Cashman is opposed to it.
Traditionally, ie: under George, they had flunkies/George’s friends in those roles.
One of the things to look for under the Hank/Hal regime is to see if they change that part of the organization.
That may be a subject of negotiation when the time comes for Cashman to talk to Hank and Hal.
I wouldn’t exactly call Brian a “yes man” during that time. He certainly didn’t have a lot of automony and was hamstrung by the way the Yankees were “organized.” But carrying out the ORDERS of your employer does not make a person a “yes man.”
Sj44..
Why do you try and change the minds or point out the reactionary… blame Cash first mentality of some people? They will not change their minds, but good try anyway.
As of right now, we have a good pitching staff…not great, but good. Guess what, none came from out side the Yankee family. Will we get better? Yes! How about the BP? The Hawk is the only one we went out and got. The team is trying to work from the inside, the guys that came on board this year; Ensgberg, Green etc., were all signed to minor league contracts…so they think Ensgberg is better then what we have at AAA/AA, for now. See if Ensgberg is here in July, I don’t think so.
sj-
the yankees do seem like a glorified mom and pop business sometimes. it just seems that organizations like boston, cleveland , and arizona seem more with it as far as the latest management structures. maybe it’s not cashman, and maybe it is the steinbrenners themselves. whatever it is, i’d like to see the yankees upgrade their overall organization.
ideally the yankees would keep cashman like cleveland has kept shapiro in their organization. with the fast pace changes in the game, the gm job is probably a job for a relatively young person. cashman may not have that energy anymore, but he’d certainly be valuable to the organization if he was bumped up to a role above the gm.
If Cashman signs with any team other than the Yankees I will root for the Sux.
Need I say more?
Stick has no interest in being a GM again. Doesn’t want the grief and doesn’t want the time commitment it would take to do the job.
He enjoys what he is doing now. A little scouting and consulting. He’s not an option.
Geeez, SJ… What, did you play golf with him this morning or something? How in the heck would you know?
My god, this blog is turning into the SJ44 half-hour comedy hour…
After getting spurned by Pavano, the Red Sox gave over 20 million dollars to Matt Clement. How did that work out?
And it was 3 years, $29M, fyi…
ahhhh… 3 years, $27. Fat Irish fingers, sorry…
One question: who is SJ44?
Another question: I heard or read somewhere that Cashman reads this blog. What is his screen name on this blog?
A last comment: growing up near NY, I love the Yankees. But my Pens put a big hurt on the Rangers, who other than the Pens and Detroit, have the best team in the playoffs, and fought to the bitter end.
this is a minor point probably off topic, but has it ever occurred to anyone that if someone on this blog had inside information directly from someone in the game that they wouldn’t say it directly because they would betray the trust of that inside person.
i’m not saying sj sometimes has inside info, but if he did, he wouldn’t come out and directly say it.
One question: who is SJ44?
Someone who believes he si a very well-informed individual…
LOL
Most of the time I agree with his posts. But sometimes he goes over the top…
No idea who Cashman is on here… My guess? Probably Anti-Mussina…
Just kidding!
I really would like to see Jean start getting groomed for the position. She is doing a great job with the international market and with her background is very good in Contracts and with the Arbitration process. I’m not sure how much or if any input she has with scouting and the draft, but i think it’s time she branches into that arena. Jean is a very intelligent person and if Brian decides to go elsewhere, it would be very nice to see the Yankees make sports history by promoting her.
OH MY GOD THE SKY IS FALLING
The thing is… why wouldn’t Cashman sign a deal?
He’ll get paid more money than any other executive in the game— much more money than he will get from the likes of the Dodgers, Seattle, or Nationals.
Secondly, he has an unlimited payroll and has such a huge advantage over every other team in that regard and never has to cut corners. Even if he makes mistakes like $46 million on Igawa, he can cover it up with $28 million for Clemens. What other orginization can possibly do that? Look at the Phillies– they allienated Howard in his arb. hearing because they were cheap and now hes likely out the door. The Dodgers are one of the cheapest orginizations in baseball considering the money they make and have been a dormant franchise for 20 years. He will never get the financial freedom anywhere that he does here. Sure, their owners are probably more low-key and will let him do his job, but none of them have the same desire to win as the Steins nor the willingness to do whatever it takes financially. Again– if any of the aformentioned orginizations wanted to sign Clemens for $28 million in May, would they?
Thirdly, he has a rejuventated farm system that HE can take credit for. All of his hard work is going to start to pay off very soon. We first saw guys like Cano, Wang, Melky come through, then last year Joba and Hughes broke through, now this year and 2009, guys like Garcia, Horne, Sanchez, McCutchen, Robertson, Cox, Melancon, Kontos, Jackson, Tabata, will come through and we still haven’t even seen the high ceiling studs in A-ball like Betances, Brackman, Romine, Heredia, Montero, Chris Garcia, Angelini, McAllister etc. (who knows if or when any of those guys will make it but they have sky high ceilings to be special players). This has been his goal all along, to implement his vision of having homegrown players that he can call his own and get accoaldes for. Does he really want to give all that up and watch the new GM take credit for Cashman’s drafted players?
And finally and most imporantly, he appears to have a workable relationship with Hank. Nothing Hank has said or done has gone against Cashman’s wishes. Even when hiring the manager, he deferred to Cashman to conduct the interview the way he wanted to– otherwise it would have been Mattingly which is what George wanted. Even he said Joba is going to start and we’re going to be formidable in the future and spend plenty of money in Latin America etc. He didn’t trade anybody, he didn’t call out the manager, he didn’t demand a world series win or do anything George used to do. Hank is all bark and no bite– even his bark is a mere moan. Cashman also has Hal as an ally should anything go wrong. Hal makes the final decisions anyway and has been a Cashman supporter. If the owner supports the GMs vision, where exactly is the rift?
Sure, Cashman has an extreme amount of pressure to win from the outside (fanbase, media), but when you have the resources he does, how hard can that be? We are in a great spot as an orginization… alot of dead weight coming off the books this summer and an excellent FA class along with a replenished farm system.
What could Cashman possibly find in the Washington, Dodgers, Mariners orginization that he couldn’t get even better here aside from less owner intrusion (an owner who has no power to do anything, mind you)? But is that enough to offset the numerous other benefits?
The people so quick to criticize need to realize that this team has gotten to the postseason for 13 YEARS IN A ROW.
And if you don’t know by now that the postseason is as big a crapshoot as there is in sports, then there’s no point in even going further.
The Yankees happened to win a lot at the beginning. If they had won one World Series every 3 years or so, you’d all want to make Cashman the president.
I hope Cahsman DOES go to Philly.
He will fit in PERFECTLY there.
Cashman LOVES making bad decisions about pitching, and The Phils LOVE terrible pitchers!
It will be a marriage made in heaven.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, get him out of the Bronx!!!
Hire a GM who knows how to do more than simply destroy what Gene Michael built.
he’s not going anywhere, this happens every year, fans get stupid in the let him go, the guy rejuvenated the system and got roles for everybody, rebuilding behind the scenes is not so easy, this is what he is doing.
“Cashman doesn’t talk much about his situation. But the parameters of the job have changed since 2005. As George Steinbrenner slips into the background, Hank and Hal Steinbrenner have more authority. As the terrain changes, Cashman has to decide whether it suits him.”
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Ugh. As the terrain APPEARS to change…
Is that so hard ? At least that would be factually sound. Saying that it HAS changed is speculation and nothing more. Please, name one organizational decision that has run counter to Cashman’s opinion - ONE….
Still waiting. For all the bluster Hank generates, I don’t see where anything has really changed. But, of course, that doesn’t make for NEARLY as interesting of a story, now does it ?
Pete,
I can’t help but find it funny how muhc offense you take to a guy like Girardi being nasty with the media, when it is the same media that is throwing stuff like this against the wall and praying it sticks.
What indication have we had that Cashman wants to leave? Just like the last time, Cashman has made it clear he does not wish to negotiate in season. And why should he? He knows he has leverage and can get a sweeter deal the longer he waits.
Yet the fact he hasn’t signed a deal now leads us to start naming teams he can be the general manager of?
I don’t want to hear from the media about the insufferable Joe Girardi when they are spinning stories like this without such much as an INKLING it might be true…
My observation is based solely on living in the DC area and following (half-heartedly) the Nationals: Cashman would only come here if he wanted to lead a significant rebuilding effort. It is a completely different environment here. No real tradition, very low expectations, new ownership.
In addition the power seems to rest with the President, Stan Kasten (formerly of the Braves), not with Bowden ,who is titled Senior VP and General Manager. I don’t see Kasten leaving any time soon; and it is hard to see Cashman taking a job where he would have reduced power.
Slightly related, I am hoping that Hank starts being a little more involved and “out there,” if only for the reason that I was too young to really appreciate the Boss back in the 1970’s, and wouldn’t mind getting a flavor for that now. Appreciate may not be the right word, but the results back then on the field were fun to watch.
“Know this much: The Yankees need Cashman more than he needs them. There’s nobody in the organization with enough experience to take over as general manager.”
The obvious error with this statement is that it falsely assumes that the Yanks need to hire from within. They don’t. And besides, Cashman’s work as GM has been spotty at best. He’s wasted a ton of money on many disastrous moves. I wouldn’t look at his departure as a big loss.
Cash was a naif when he became GM, so I am sure they can find someone inhouse or out if need be.
“Didn’t CASH$ say he wanted to go with youth only to sign vets like Ensgberg and Hawkins?”
are you serious?
“Geeez, SJ… What, did you play golf with him this morning or something? How in the heck would you know?”
Gene Michael is 70 years old. he’s not going to be a GM again.
he told me over some bocce this morning.
seriously, he’s too old. it ain’t happening
I’d like to see Cashman stay, but if he left the Yankee world won’t stop turning. He’s done a nice job reviving the minor league system.
However, it remains to be seen if he overvalues some of the prospects. How a pitcher with below average velocity like Ian Kennedy could ever be deemed “untouchable” is beyond me. I’m not just piling on here. I said it last fall too.
Rushing Kennedy after only 149 minor league innings was a mistake. The bigger mistake was not having a backup plan if Kennedy and Hughes struggled. The Yanks could be the only team in baseball that would replace arguably mlb’s worst starting pitcher (Kennedy) with an even worse pitcher (Igawa). That’s not exactly good planning and it reflects poorly on Cashman.
The Yankees need Cashman more than Cashman needs the Yankees? Funniest line I’ve heard in a while.
Let me know if the Nationals will let him sign Contreras and Vazquez, then dump them while eating most of their contracts. Let me know if they’ll let him sign a 46M dollar Japanese AAA pitcher. Let me know if they’ll let him take on huge contracts in Abreu and Lidle at the trade deadline.
If Cashman goes to the Nationals, he better hope that Damon Oppenheimer goes with him or he becomes a nobody.
Cashman will wait till his contract expires to take offers, but not to worry, Hank wont go without Cash….he will be resigned just as Mo, Posada and ARod were.
I just love all the armchair GMs with these statements of “with the Yankees resources, how could Cashman not put a championship team on the field” Implied is “what an idiot. Any schmuck could be the Yanks GM with that kind of money.” As if money is the only significant factor. As if every other ballclub treats the yankees like any other trade partner when a deal is potentially on the table. As if anyone could work under George Steinbrenner for as long as Cashman has. Wasn’t Gene Michael fed up enough at one point years ago to say no to the job? I hope Cashman stays, just given his ability to handle the Steinbrenner and the media.
THe job as GM for the Yanks is to either win a WS or at least improve the team each year with the goal of winning a WS being in reach….In the last 7 and soon to be 8 years, the team has gone from 3 time WS champ, to 2 time loser and now to a team that cannot even win the Division….His “plan” with Hughes (brittle as a potato chip) and Kennedy( mediocre at best) shows why this guy should be gone after this year.
“But Cashman is still a young man and perhaps he wants another challenge.”
Is that anything but pure speculation on your part?
Oh, what a disaster it would be if we lose the guy who, despite a $200M payroll, has failed to build a team that could get through the first round of the playoffs, signed Pavano, Farnsworth, couldn’t eke out a discounted deal with Matsui, Posada, Rivera, or ARod (despite that they were going nowhere else), and didn’t pull the trigger for Santana because he vastly overestimated the talent of the young pitching. Please, Cash, go, by all means, pick a fight with Bernie Williams while you’re toiling away for the Nationals. If Cash actually had to rely on baseball acumen without the benefit of Steinbrenner’s money, it would be a sad organization indeed.
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May 5th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
If Cashman signs with any team other than the Yankees I will root for the Sux.
Need I say more?”
What? A little ridiculous to have that much loyalty to a GM, for god’s sakes. Just a stupid statement, pure and simple.
Mattgew Frags might have just made the worst post in blogging history. Good lord, I pity you.
Matthew* then again making a typo regarding your name is a non-issue.
The Yankees don’t need Cashman. I was a fan of his two years ago but he has done absolutely nothing but make bad team decisions since then. I want him gone. Let him go to Philly or D.C. Who cares. He’s a puppet who’s vision for my team is greatly clouded. Get lost.
Cash should be fired if they miss playoff this season. Most likely they will.