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Btw, it was announced today that Billy Eppler would not interview for the DBacks GM job, and I'm starting to think he has a promise from the Yankees. Wonder what it is.
posted by Kalel9 @ 2:23 PM
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Saturday, September 13, 2014
Btw, it was announced today that Billy Eppler would not interview for the DBacks GM job, and I'm starting to think he has a promise from the Yankees. Wonder what it is.
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Eppler is part of the problem. No other team wants him anyway.
That's not true. He turned down San Diego.
I don't recall reading that, bit I still think he is the opposite of what is needed: a fresh look with no attachment to the current mediocre way of doing things.
This says Eppker was best out:
http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=11317413&src=desktop
Edit Eppler beat
No, that's not what happened. Eppler dropped out after it was tweeted that he was the choice. That's why I think he has a promise from the Yankees.
I haven't seen that anywhere, but it doesn't matter really.
What matters is that he isn't worthy of being the Yankees' GM, but neither he Cashman.
What has characterized the Cashman era is poor development, inefficient spending, completely misunderstanding the the looming scarcity of offense, and picking a terrible, if not dangerous, manager (and being an asshole to the fans just for fun).
Taken together, it has negated what should have been an overwhelming payroll advantage.
So to choose someone who has been a part of this mess is bizarre.
I would make an offer to Buck to be the GM and manager. It might get things right with their karma.
Buck is a solid manager for a young team, and gets them on the cusp of winning. Then he seems to have to go for the team to win. Happened with the Yankees, Diamondbacks and Rangers. It has to be more than a coincident.
Tanaka (if healthy), CC (if healthy) Pineda, Greene and McCarthy should be the rotation in 2015. Mitchell should be the 1st choice if anyone is hurt.
Then Phelps.
Nova and Manban should be ready later in the year.
Keep D-Rob, and let the kids like Lindgren and Webb and Pinder (if healthy) and Rubelow (sp???)and Whitney pitch in the pen, along with Warren and Betances and Kelley. And don't overuse anyone early in the year, so guys like Warren don't fade in August-Sept.
Bottom line - The pitching is pretty good, especially if you re-sign McCarthy and Tanaka is healthy. Spend the resources to fix the hitting.
Tanaka is pitching his sim game, now.
That's the point. The Yankees need to get younger and develop the next wave. So he would fit.
They can pretend that old, expensive guys will come around, but it would be cheaper overall to sit them and play someone else as so as they become ready.
Saw this at No Maas
But what Madden reveals next is news to us, in that the minor league system is truly dysfunctional.
Where Cashman can be faulted, however, is the minor league system. Back in 2005, he threatened to leave as GM if Yankee owner George Steinbrenner didn’t put an end to the longstanding separate fiefdoms in both Tampa and New York and give him control over the entire baseball operation. But once in charge, Cashman did nothing to change the way the minor league system was run. Newman remained and was allowed to continue hiring his cronies as scouts and coaches, many of whom never even played professionally (while at the same time running off, among others, Dick Groch, the scout who signed Derek Jeter, and Fred Ferreira, the scout who signed Bernie Williams), and Damon Oppenheimer continued as scouting director.
I’m told the morale throughout the Yankees’ minor league system was at an all-time low this year as Newman had minor league pitching coordinator Gil Patterson calling minor league managers in the middle of ballgames and ordering them to remove pitchers with rising pitch counts. Yet in spite of all the failed draft picks, and pitchers who were never allowed to pitch out of jams, and the absence of any impact position players coming through the system, Cashman nevertheless approved Newman’s policies and all his hires — which makes you wonder about his own judgment and whether he should be the one to conduct the needed overhaul of the Yankee player development and scouting systems.
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