Yanks: 189 Again???
1) Hal had not curtailed amateur spending before the rules changes in IFA and the draft.
2) Had Hal been aggressive in the Cuban market.
3) in 2012, had Hal said "no" to the free agents that came with draft pick compensation and kept his 3 firsts, but still signed Tanaka as well as compensation free Cubans.
4) In 2014-15 if Hal had really gone out in IFA and added Cubans to his big haul.
Having done those things, Hal would have added a lot more and better amateur talent - including 3 more first round draft picks and perhaps Sano in IFA. He would have added top Cubans in both the majors and minors. It would have given the Yanks to eventually getting out of the business of hiring veteran FA's and producing and extending their own.
He also should have extended Cano and Robertson before they ever became FA's.
But having been pound foolish and penny wise again, he is once again looking at his failed policies, that have found us out of the playoffs for two years and calling once again for 189.
posted by Kalel9 @ 5:04 PM
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I understand why he wants to spend less, but you can't approve contracts for Capunao and Drew, not to mention Ellsbury and McCann and Beltran and Headley, and have this shit taken seriously by anyone with a sentient brain.
And he thinks that his GM is doing a great job.
So they are all at the helm of this rudderless ship.
Sell and let a competent owner clean house from top to bottom.
Before The Brothers Stein, Cash had talked George into higher draft and IFA spending. And he wasn't going to take back ARod.
And right now you might not like the top, but the system has been massively upgraded.
I've said before that I'm not as down on Cashman as LINJ is. That being said, stuff like this isn't doing him any favors in regard to perception among the more informed fans:
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/harper-pirela-making-believer-mr-october-not-cashman-article-1.2144799
SARASOTA, Fla. — Jose Pirela smoked a hard single to center in the sixth inning against the Orioles, too hard for Jonathan Galvez to try to score from second, and immediately I thought of what Reggie Jackson said a couple of days ago when he called Pirela the best hitter in the Yankee organization.
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Except Brian Cashman was hearing none of it here on Tuesday.
For one thing, although he’s quick to praise Pirela as a “good contact hitter,” he’s not sure what prompted Reggie to make such a statement to a couple of reporters while watching Pirela take batting practice on Sunday.
“That’s wrong,” Cashman said. “Greg Bird’s by far the best hitter (among prospects) in the organization.”
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Publicly contradicting an employee and simultaneously talking one of your prospects down is a dick move, plain and simple. Offer some kind of general statement like, "Pirela has made some noise in the past year, and we'll see if and where he fits in."
I don't think Cashman is the bumbling fool some on NYYFans think he is, but I would not want to work for the man.
BTW, here's this from The Boston Globe:
“We scouted him extensively for years,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “I feel we put him through the highest level of scouting and medical evaluation. I just wasn’t comfortable offering what we actually offered [$25 million], let alone going any higher.”
So, when agent David Hastings came back to the Yankees after the Red Sox went to $31.5 million — exceeding their own $25 million cap — Cashman said he was out.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/03/21/time-for-baseball-expand-rosters/tARtvIe7GPGR9Bs7cfM8LI/story.html?hootPostID=dd5aaac2e9bafce7c290bd737dac198f
I don't care if they replace Cash, but I do like pretty much everything that Denbo and the others are doing with the system and that was Cash's doing.
I'm neither calling for Cashman's head nor would I be heartbroken to see him go, assuming someone better replaced him as opposed to some Randy Levine yes-man. (My biggest fear.)
I'll give him credit if the farm actually begins producing again. And I really do think ownership — and I include Levine when I say that — hinders him at times. I also think that last quote about him not wanting to go above $25M for Moncada is him covering for an ownership decision that's above his head. After the Rafael Soriano fiasco, I imagine they all had a pow-wow and agreed that he needn't publicly discuss being overruled.
Whether or not Cashman is a fool is irrelevant (his personality has gone from humble to asshole, but that's irrelevant too).
What matters is that he has proven that he can't excel given whatever constraints the owners have imposed.
It's just time for new people.
But Hal doesn't give a shit and fans are too indifferent or hooked or stupid, to stop coming to games completely in order to give him the only middle finger he can see.
As for Moncada, it is kind of strange that the two deals he publicly complained about were with the Sorianos, neither of whom should have been balls to the walls either way, and yes, he was right on both.
But I have been saying that if he really wanted Moncada, he should have made every off season move with that outlay in mind.
It's pretty clear that he didn't.
Fan interest seems to have waned if spring training is any indication. With no star players, if the team doesn't win, then you will probably start seeing attendance drop.
Both viewership and attendance have been trending down for several years, but it hasn't gotten to the point of ridicule yet.
Empty stadiums in December are supposedly a tripwire for John Mara, but for all his faults, he is far more engaged than Hal.
I still think this team will go as far as A-Rod and Beltran take them (assuming the pitching is good or better).
Maybe Tex too; we'll see.
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