Mike Gonzalez also deserves a good look ! Both had outstanding yrs. with Atl. in relief and are free agents !

Matsui has been a great player for us, but if those knees get any worse, all he will be able to do is turn over ground balls to 2nd.
It’s alot easier to pick up a bat in midseason than a P. I would also stay away from Lackey.

crawdaddy-

cashman was doing fine until he said the post season doesn’t matter.

it does matter.

it’s really that simple.

if you personally can’t handle opposing ideas, that’s your problem.

cashman was a part of a team that won #27.

i think his 3-4 million dollar salary reflects his value to a team that spends over 200 million a year.

this is not cashman’s championship.

it’s the whole team’s championship which he’s a part.

i again restate . the postseason matters.

it is absurd to say it doesn’t because a yankee season is a failure if they don’t do well in a post season.

i realize it’s very difficult to measure small samples and predict future performance, but with the yankees some of the players have large enough post season samples that you can tell something about the player.

the yankees actually have an advantage over other teams that their players do have large postseason samples to go by.

this is not a personal thing with cashman with me. it’s a philosophical issue.
he tends when he’s bad cashman to fall back into the bad habits of falling into sabermetric dogma.

he broke out of it last winter by spending 400 million on good players.

cashman has said one thing i object to and that’s that the postseason doesn’t matter in his evaluations of players.

i say that’s a mistake.

every time a baseball player steps on a field it counts.

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cashman is saying that the ps alone does not mean damon is more than a 37 yr old lf with no arm,plays an ok lf & will hit 24 hr/85 rbi at his best & should be paid accordingly

you would do the same

you cant give damon a 3 yr/45 million dollar contract if he was the ws mvp

the yankees always pay their players more or fair compared to the rest of baseball

if damon was on any other team he does not get 13 million a year,same with matsui

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why would cashman care if the rs get him?

he has proven nothing in the majors

dice k mean anything

dice is ok but nothing special & is a 5 inning pitcher making 18 million if you factor the posting fee wich came out of the rs pockets

i see damon,matsui & pettitte all coming back if they can work it out because the alternatives will cost the same or more

if damon,matsui & pettitte get to greedy they are gone

i think cash will set a maximum for each & stick to it

i think he is willing to play melky in lf,gardner/ajax in cf,swish in rf,nady dh & bring only pettitte back

payroll will be 179 million leaving money for a pitcher

next year has some nice fa

crawford,lee,mauer

melky in lf
gardner/ajax in cf
swish in rf
nady dh

how many rbi do we lose ?

melky,matsui & damon gave us about 253 rbi

if we get

melky(lf) 68 rbi
nady 85(dh) rbi
gardner,ajax (cf) 65 rbi is 218 rbi with arod giving us 20-40 more
that is 238-258 rbi

if we bring pettitte & nady back payroll will be about 179 million down from 206 with a nice crop of fa next year

they really came through for me down the stretch this fall by hanging in there working extra hours and hitting the goals we had set.

to make sure they don’t take advantage of me,i have decided to open negotiations for employment for next summer by telling them that the extra push that they did does not count and i will only be going by how well they did during the less important earlier period when no one was tired .

well, that would be one way to do things if we weren’t a team at my business.
employees are not adversaries .

matsui and damon are not adversaries to cashman.

he needs to knock off the BS that the post season doesn’t matter.

if anything , it matters more.
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hence my moniker…. without the billions of $$$ he has at his disposal he hasn’t shown much intelligence otherwise…
swisher was a no brainer since it only involved betemit (whom cashman coveted for 2 years) so don’t give me that he was smart making that trade…

we are better with a # 2 pitcher. we have 5 pitchers that can be our 4th or 5th pitcher & pettittes 8-12 million has 1 or 2 yrs left

wfan saying yankees like lackey.
i dont think he wants to come to ny

i think it makes perfect sense

pitching is what got us back to where we are

cc
lackey
burnett
pettitte
anybody makes us sick

teams are going to get better pitching to try to beat our top 3

becket
lackey/halladay
lester
dice

blows our top 3 away

phillies are going after halladay

i would not want to face them with lee,halladay

we need to stay ahead of the rest not sit still & say we won it with what we already have

we are a pitcher short

if we lose 1 pitcher there will be 3 rotation spots that could be a mess & that is if pettitte returns

joba,hughes,mitre,gaudin,kennedy,ace have proven nothing

let them fight for 1 spot not 2

right now without pettitte there are 3 spots open

what happens if cc or burnett get hurt?

4 out of 5 rotation spots could be a mess & the way it looks cashman agrees