Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman bought an earful Wednesday from WFAN’s Brandon Tierney over the group’s quiet MLB commerce deadline on Tuesday.
Cashman was pressed on the group’s urgency in comparison with the previous throughout the change with Sal Licata and Tierney.
“If the urgency was at all times there, why was [Joey] Gallo given the leash that he was? Why was [Aaron] Hicks given the leash that he was?” Tierney stated of former Yankees who struggled for lengthy stretches earlier than the group gave up on them.
“I do know that [team owner] Hal Steinbrenner desires to win. And I do know that you just need to win. However the highest of urgency to win, I’ve not seen that the final couple of years fairly the way in which we used to previously. I haven’t. And I don’t suppose I’m alone. In order that’s why I ask. It doesn’t really feel completely different with Hal this 12 months, in any respect?”
Cashman appeared flustered earlier than answering the query.
“I suppose I’d need to get that drug tester over there and allow you to pee in a bottle so we will get that pattern examined,” Cashman stated sarcastically.
He then pivoted to roster highlights, notably locking up Gerrit Cole and Aaron Choose to monster offers, and buying Juan Soto in a blockbuster commerce with the Padres earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season.
“The retention of Aaron Choose. You’ve bought an MVP. You’ve bought a Cy Younger Award winner. You bought an MVP candidate imported at large cash. You’ve bought a retention of an MVP candidate a few years again with [D.J.] LeMahieu when he was a free agent,” Cashman stated.
“These are simply examples. All designed – because the payrolls go greater – of bettering your possibilities, of attempting to remain in it, attempting to combat for it. So I’d refute what you’re saying. It doesn’t make any sense.”
With the Yankees starved for his or her first championship since 2009, Cashman is aware of the urgency questions will come into play if the group falls wanting expectations as soon as once more.
“When the mud settles, it simply comes all the way down to, did we win the World Sequence or did we not? And if we didn’t win the World Sequence, then clearly all these things comes into play, the place you query their starvation,” Cashman stated.
“You ask about, why did Gallo get the leash he had or why did Hicks get the leash he had? Properly, it is determined by what the options had been and the power to import on these options on the time.”
The Yankees — winners of 5 of their final six, together with a three-game sweep over the Phillies — acquired Jazz Chisholm from the Marlins on Saturday, with the infielder already bolstering the lineup.
Nonetheless, Tuesday was extra subdued with the group settling for relievers Mark Leiter Jr. and Enyel De Los Santos in a pair of offers.
