Cashman is one of the longest-serving execs with one franchise in MLB history. At what point do his policies go stale? He was so close a few years ago and only now are we able to evaluate how his program went off the tracks. Hal will revisit Cashman’s future in November. I don’t imagine he was too thrilled while watching last night’s game with his GM.
OK.
Boone barely matters, Cashman I will rebut.
Well, Gleyber was a top ten young player in all of MLB at one point, he has just continued to get worse. I'm not really sure that's on the team, but baseball is complicated.
Their GM is in his third season. But yeah, he could be gone in November if the Dodgers flop in October. Why does Cashman keep his job year after year? He’s a survivor. I suspect Hal hated the instability that his father used as a motivational tool. He and Cashman are roughly the same age. But if you judge this franchise by championships, they are both failures.
Maybe it's been written about in some of the recent Yankee books, but my theory (seriously) is that every 4-5 years he goes to Hal and says "OK, this past 4-5 years hasn't paid off the way we'd both hoped, we have won a lot of games as always but not the WS. My professional advice as a longtime GM is that you should fire Brian immediately and hire me, new Brian, and if you hire me, here is what new Brian will do differently..."
He has evolved several times since 1998 when he was the kid who replaced Bob Watson and reaped the benefits of Gene Michael’s wisdom. To his credit, Cashman gave credit where it belonged. He listened to Joe Torre and then failed to back him in the infamous 2007 meeting with a fading Boss. The Girardi decade followed. Similar ending for another Joe. Now it’s Boone who has survived for seven years. Maybe this time Hal will take charge.
Gotta disagree. All season, we see guys running less than full speed down the line. Soto just did it a couple innings later. There is a complacency about this team, a lack of urgency, that keeps showing up. Judge is the only guy who runs everything out.
He is so good that he often cruises in second gear but when he has to run all out like that, he can cover ground.
Holmes needed that more than anyone. Maybe they can start to get others who are struggling back on track. Like Judge. When he homers, it seems to loosen everyone else up.
Go ahead HR in the 7th just now in AAA, he has been crushing the past few weeks. He missed a few months after being hit with a ball in the face and having a fractured eye socket at the end of spring training, but he is back and gunning for a spot with NY now.
Yeah, the Orioles are 4-6 in their last 10 games. Their pitchers have been struggling of late.
