Cashman on tampering accusation: “Not true”
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Jun 17, 2011 
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During a weekly radio appearance today, Peter Gammons accused the Yankees of tampering with Red Sox starter Andrew Miller. Gammons said “a lot of teams” tried to get Miller to opt out of his minor league deal before the Red Sox had a chance to put him in their rotation.
Brian Cashman responded with a two-word text message: “Not true,” he said.
Here’s Gammons’ comment:
“I know this: There were a lot of teams that tampered and tried to get him to do the opt-out, including the New York Yankees. A lot of teams wanted him to opt out on Wednesday. Because of his trust for the Red Sox and how much they’ve invested in him — not in terms of money but in terms of effort to just get his delivery back and be patient with him, he stayed. In some ways, their fortunate. Because I think he could have gotten twice as much money if he had left.”
Right, Pete………..
Gammons should worry more about having the dentist tamper with his teeth and less about conjuring up rumors.
LOL Who was going to pay Andrew Miller double? Maybe the scout who said he pitched the best inning he’d ever seen
Next Gammons will tell us how Miller is a future hall of famer…
He is already on record stating that Miller will be either an excellent reliever or a very fascinating starter, leaving out the ‘horrendous bust’ and ‘terrible, terrible pitcher’ options
Is he mad that Stealth swooped in on Gordon and Wade?
Sox likely tampered befored signing Drew and they angered a Japanese team with Millar. And I’m missing other instances. Something about pots and kettles.
I like Pete personally and up until now I’ve never heard him say anything bad about the Yankees (yes, I get that he’s pro-Sox). I seriously doubt, with all their issues, that the Yankees had any interest in Miller anyway.
Sox likely tampered befored signing Drew and they angered a Japanese team with Millar. And I’m missing other instances. Something about pots and kettles.
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Signing the other japanese guy out of the japanese industrial league breaking the unwritten gentlemen’s rules of the NPB/MLB alliance
Peter forgot to take his meds and brush his teeth again didn’t he?
Interesting that his comments mentioned a lotof teams, but the only team he can actually pronounce is The Yankees.
Maybe Pete is tampering???
Miller gets to face the anemic Padres offense in his major league debut.
That’s incentive enough to stay with the Sox.
Gammons has to stop doing interviews. He doesn’t realize how senile and ridiculous he sounds. The Sox are so far up his butt that there is no stoping him now….
Jerkface June 17th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Sox likely tampered befored signing Drew and they angered a Japanese team with Millar. And I’m missing other instances. Something about pots and kettles.
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Signing the other japanese guy out of the japanese industrial league breaking the unwritten gentlemen’s rules of the NPB/MLB alliance
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Yup, that’s right. This is false outrageous on part of Sox/Gammons.
As long as the Padres don’t swing the bat, Miller should be good for walking 6-8 guys and giving up a few runs.
not every game but when you face a horrible pitcher on a bad team you should win the game when your starter gives up 3 runs
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he wasn’t horrible today and that’s all that matters.
we are a power hitting team that has trouble with soft tossers with location.
it happens.
today’s game was underwhelming and overhyped.
kaye was so in love with wrigley he forgot his ipad on the plane.
i hate these “event” games.
and i get that the yanks don’t get up for them as the other team, meaning the redsox.
My Johnny Damon shirt!
peter gammons is a red sox homer
Realized I forgot the link.
http://s1039.photobucket.com/a.....C5qcGc.jpg
Why didn’t Gammons name the other teams?
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classic boston bs. people are born there and have to pledge allegiance to the hometown teams it is like a cult or something.
boston fans are so parochial it is scary… they think the country ends at hartford…………
Wouldn’t surprise me if the Yankees and others did a little back channeling on Miller, but nothing official. That’s the way it goes in baseball. Calling it tampering is a significant stretch.
If Gammons is lying, the Yankees should sue him….just on principal.
Easy enough to prove/disprove. Get Miller or his agent on the phone and have them confirm they were tampered with and the Yankees were involved.
No confirmation, no tampering.
“Why didn’t Gammons name the other teams?”
Because bashing the Yankee organization in general and certain players in particular has become acceptable.
Easy enough to prove/disprove. Get Miller or his agent on the phone and have them confirm they were tampered with and the Yankees were involved
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My sense of these things is that teams can get word to players w/o making actual contact. Someone changes cabs a couple times, and tells a guy who knows another guy who knows someone who knows the agent.
Nobody will prove anything. Gammons made a very poor choice of words.
I know this. Gammons has become a hack.
Took the great Marcum a long time to give up his first run. 1 batter
Further, as someone pointed out earlier, what I described above is almost certainly what Boston did in their dealings with Drew.
It’s the World Series whenever the Yankees come to town…..
“That was a different atmosphere,” Ramirez said. “It’s the Yankees, one of the best teams in baseball. A lot of tradition, and it’s going to be a great series.”
“Why didn’t Gammons name the other teams?”
He was on a Boston radio station. Read meat.
I think Graig Nettles compared it to the circus.
Glad the Cubs felt the same way when the Sox came to town. Oh wait scratch that
“He was on a Boston radio station. Read meat.”
You’re right, it really is analogous to a politician saying something inflammatory to fire up their base.
Donnie Collins take on this is exactly on the mark. I’m sure Chad can speak to this in detail as well from his years covering the minors.
The fact of the matter is, tampering is a strong word, and Gammons would not have called it tampering if it didn’t involve a Red Sox player. This sort of stuff happens literally all the time. All the time. Whether it’s tampering or not, I don’t know. But every decent player with an out clause knows if there is any interest from other big league clubs before he decides what to do. Fact is, the Phillies have a great tampering claim against the Yankees as far as Brian Gordon is concerned. He was out of the Lehigh Valley clubhouse the day before his clause kicked in and warming up in a park across the street from Yankee Stadium the day before he officially signed with them. But usually, teams understand that it’s a business and that players have to do what’s best for themselves. The Phillies didn’t begrudge Gordon looking for other opportunities, and the agent is just doing his due diligence when an out clause approaches by contacting other teams. I know for a fact that when Dustin Moseley’s out clause was almost set to kick in last year, he knew there were some other organizations interested. How did that happen, if not for some of the same type of “tampering” Gammons talked about? Bottom line is, every organization has a minor leaguer with an out clause somewhere, so this sort of stuff happens a lot. How it’s all of a sudden “tampering” because it involved a member of the Red Sox is a little perplexing to me.
At times it feels like sports journalism is locked in this death spiral against itself. The need to get attention drives columnists and even reporters to make outlandish statements to get heard above the “noise” of all the media we’re surrounded by. The outlandishness decreases credibility which necessitates more outlandishness in order to get anyone to pay attention and so on and so on.
Gammons has driven entirely new levels of “innovation” for his profession.
The reporter as pure, unabashed fan. It’s just so embarrassing.
http://blogs.thetimes-tribune.com/yankees/
Peter Gammons is a member of the (nonexistent) writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame!
And is above reproach. Above!
Unless what I read was incorrect, Philly sent out an email blast to all clubs that they were not going to be retaining Gordon so they abetted his being “tampered” with.
I really hate that spunk award winners are called hall of famers.
The great Shaun Marcum. 2-2
Other then Shields does any pitcher ever pitch a good game against them
Its only tampering because he threw the greatest inning of all time
Looks like Carl Crawford may have pulled a hammy. Taken out of the game.
Crawford Hamstring………Ouch.
pat is an extremely empathetic person!!!
The Yanks and Sox roughed up Marcum last year when he was with the Jays.
Impressive performance by Marcum so far….
Left handed bats 4 for 4 against Marcum this inning.
Marcum will be sending a thank you note to Anthopolous after this game for trading him out of the AL East.
Welcome back to the AL East, Mr. Marcum.
Captain Clutch,
are you surprised?
It’s a what goes around, comes around thing that you appreciate more the older you get.
Marcum might throw 100 pitches in the 1st inning
Now Lackey will pitch a 1-2-3 on 10 pitches and the Sox will score again next inning
Jerkface you still think The Yankees have a better offense then the Sox?
Jerkface you still think The Yankees have a better offense then the Sox?\
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Red Sox are scoring more than the Yankees per game, so no. I think by the end of the year the Yankees will be first, but I’ll take 2nd. Its not like the Yankees have been #1 every year (some years the red sox are #1)
Now Lackey will pitch a 1-2-3 on 10 pitches and the Sox will score again next inning
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Not bad, RS. 9 pitches.
Red Sox are scoring more than the Yankees per game, so no. I think by the end of the year the Yankees will be first, but I’ll take 2nd. Its not like the Yankees have been #1 every year (some years the red sox are #1)
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Sox have to score 6 runs tonight to be in first.
I agree with anyone who wrote that the game was a letdown. We had a winning streak going!
Rhapsody,
You posted my first reaction. Who are these other teams, Peter? I mean, you said that a lot of teams wanted him to opt out. The only one that came to mind was the Yankees?
It’s pretty sad, that a journalist of his standing focuses so much on just two teams.
Gammons is no more a journalist than John Sterling.
Banuelos so far . 3 IP, 1 BB, 1 hit, 3 K’s, 0 runs.
Why did Marcum leave the game?
It’s pretty sad, that a journalist of his standing focuses so much on just two teams.
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He goes where he’s told, where the money is.
m,
groin
Triple,
Ouch.
Gammons can’t form a sentence about the Red Sox that doesn’t include the Yankees. And vice versa. It’s been his m.o. since before his current gig.
Spoke too soon….wheels fell off Manny in the 4th. Given up 4 runs already with nobody out.
Why did Marcum leave the game?
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Suckitis
all 3 of these games are letdown games….friday at 2, sat @4, sun. @ 8 showcase games at the great wrigley….fenway of the NL…both with massive losing traditions….up to beat the big bad yankees….interleague is a sideshow, nba/nfl style which is where they are headed with the 15 team divisions….led by gimmick bud.
Gammons can’t form a sentence
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Fixed
RAB has the trailer for moneyball up….wonder what Billy Beane thinks about them casting Brad Pitt to play him. I like Brad though…his movies are almost always good.
http://www.riveravenueblues.com
I saw it linked earlier today on one of those um, “star gossip, etc.” blogs, so I didn’t think it was appropriate to link to it here.
Rich,
it may not be….I dunno.
Why wouldnt it be?
because we’re not a Hollywood blog
blake
My sentence wasn’t clear. The trailer is fine, but the nudity on the blog I was referring to isn’t.
Billy Beane got nude?
Nah, just those celebrities seeking their 15 minutes of fame.
because we’re not a Hollywood blog
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Hollywood Swisher disagrees
at least the Brew Crew are fighting and Lackey is back to lacking
Wonder if they cast Jeter as himself to do the flip play?
Hollywood Jeter would gladly be in their movie
Go Brewers!
The very idea that teams would try to pry Andrew Miller away from the Red Sox with something so base as money is the real insult here.
He is on the fast track to sainthood.
The Temptation of Andrew Miller must end!
interleague is hollywood…it relieves the bored fan from the mundane world of everyday baseball….isn’t that what baseball is all about, playing every day?
Brewers tie it up on a double play with the bases loaded….elf made a great play and got his uniform dirty
That was a sick play by the elf.
NESN didn’t show the replay of the play at first base, however. Odd.
he was safe at first
Even more impressive that he was able to make that play with this bad news weighing on him
“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report on June 14, 2011 stating that traces of listeria have been found in the food products of a Kellogg Company (K – Analyst Report) bakery in Augusta, Ga. The regulators after an inspection in February this year came up with such findings. The Augusta plant makes Keebler and Famous Amos cookies, and is one of five cookie bakeries Kellogg operates in North America.”
The “Boston Shoulder Program” must have put Andrew Miller back on track.
Just like it did for Delcarmen and Dice-K and that guy they traded to the Pirates who Gammons said was the best setup man in baseball and now he’s setting up pins in a bowling alley.
“Because of his trust for the Red Sox and how much they’ve invested in him — not in terms of money but in terms of effort to just get his delivery back and be patient with him, he stayed”
Gammons still doing PR work for the Red Sox. First off, any agent will send out feelers to find out what teams would be interested in giving him a chance on the 25 man roster. The Yankees were obviously high on the list of teams contacted.
Miller did not opt out for one reason. The Red Sox promised to bring him up to start and set an early date. If they did not do so, Miller likely opts out.
He should not have much of a problem against the Padres, but any team which is patient and does not chase balls out of the zone, you just watch the BB’s pile up.
Gammons needs to keep his brain-damaged mouth shut.