Yankees: 3 fireable offenses from Brian Cashman in the last 24 hours
By Mark Powell
Yankees fans are frustrated with Brian Cashman, and rightly so. Has his leash grown shorter in New York after the MLB trade deadline?
Yankees fans are frustrated with Brian Cashman. Rival general managers are frustrated with Brian Cashman. Yet somehow, Hal Steinbrenner is not.
Another trade deadline season has come and gone without New York making the right moves to put themselves in World Series contention. This season, the opposite is true — the Yanks would have been better served selling what little assets they have with an eye towards 2024. Think St. Louis Cardinals-lite.
Yet, these are the damn Yankees, and because that’s the case, Cashman added a rental reliever and another pitcher they can stash. Add in Wednesday’s breaking news (Domingo German entering rehab), and it’s easy to see why the pressure will be turned up a notch on this team moving forward.
Yankees should fire Brian Cashman because of the trade deadline
I mean, what were the Yankees really thinking here? New York acquired Kenyan Middleton from the Chicago White Sox, a rental by all accounts, for prospect capital. It likely won’t hurt them in the long run, but it also won’t help this team make the kind of playoff run their fans expect on a yearly basis. If anything, acquiring Middleton shows a staggering lack of direction, which can and should be blamed on Cashman.
Yankees beat writers openly questioned Cashman’s legitimacy and direction, as well, including Chris Kirschner, who graded their trade deadline an ‘F’.
"“It’s almost a nightly occurrence now where the Yankees offense gets shut down by an opposing team’s starting pitcher, and it doesn’t even matter how good that pitcher’s stuff is. So of course the Yankees added a couple of bats to inject some life into this group, right? Nope. The Yankees added two middle relief pitchers, one of which was optioned to Triple A,” Kirschner wrote."
New York added to an MLB-best bullpen, which may help pad the stats but doesn’t do anything for the bottom line. This team is not built to make a playoff run, let along a World Series appearance. New York did the wrong thing at the deadline, and that’s what counts.