Hey, I kid, I kid.
How could Brian Cashman possibly have known this guy could do something like this?
Oh, right...
BECAUSE HE DID IT BEFORE!
Only two-time winner of the award besides...Mr. October, Reggie Jackson, from back when the Yankees could still sign useful free agents.
Ca$hole is not embarrassed. The team made megabucks money.
ReplyDeleteAnd a clown cannot be embarrassed.
The Yankees have outrighted six players including Domingo German
ReplyDeleteGerman, Matt Bowman, Franchy Cordero, Jimmy Cordero, Billy McKinney and Ryan Weber can now elect free agency, per @Joelsherman1
From Joe Randazzo on X:
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees hired Zelus Analytics to do a deep dive into the organization.
According to the Athletic, they will look into "player performance, in-game decision-making, and much more."
Two of Zelus' founders, Doug Fearing and Dan Cerone, have worked in baseball front offices at the highest level for some competent organizations.
Fearing worked with both the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. He founded the Dodgers R&D department and did the job for four seasons. He was the Senior Advisor to the Rays R&D department while serving as Faculty at Harvard Business School and UT Austin's McCombs School of Business.
Cervone also worked for the Dodgers. For three seasons, he was the Director of Quantitative Research.
And look. I get it. A lot of you are going to see the fancy job titles and high-toity Ivy League schools and get turned off. We're New Yorkers. Our dads worked with their hands, and our grandparents came off the boat. Fearing and Cervone are so far removed from the types of people in our lives they might as well be alien. We don't want to feel like we need a degree to learn the game we've been watching all our lives.
Here's the thing, though. If the Yankees are going to be the Yankees again, guys like this are necessary. Whoever Zelus is bringing in has to ensure the Yankees are on par with some of the most innovative organizations in the sport. These last few years, it feels like we've been in the stone age. These last few years, there has been a lot of "rinse and repeat" with this team, and it hasn't worked. Hopefully, this will bring about change.
I'm no good at linking, copying, pasting etc. But there's a pic out there...Heaney, Monty, Chappy, and Eovaldi standing together behind the trophy. Just the 4 of them. Enormous smiles on their faces, of course.
ReplyDeleteGotta give it to Cashman. His ability to persevere in the face of relentless professional humiliation...one after another...is oddly fascinating.
You would think that The Brain could have gotten something for German. Yeah his arbitration number is projected to be around 4.4 million dollars, a number that someone would have taken on in trade. I'm baffled, please, someone esplain this to me.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Kevin! This is a constant pattern with The Office Boy: players who have "flopped" in NYC but still have value elsewhere just get chucked into the discard pile. Sonny Gray, Thairo Estrada, Andrew Heaney, Nathan Eovaldi, Chapo, and now German all come to mind.
ReplyDeleteAll his theories aside, Cashman is simply incompetent.
Cashman is a woim. A slimy, crawling, stupid little woim.
ReplyDeleteMany Genius Cashman passons, bit not: Franchy Cordero, Billy McKinney, Matt Bowman, Jimmy Cordero and Ryan Weber. Not to mention the great Jake Bauers.
ReplyDeleteThose people cannot play, but German had potential. Which they completely fucked up.
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