Cashman Signs Extension With Yankees

WHY!!?? He's a terrible GM in my opinion, now we won't get anything done in the offseason.

What a jerk, continuing to live in NY and make million of dollars.

"putting it at in the ballpark of $2-million per year."

That boggles the mind. He makes less than Joe Girardi???

Spieg and Micks, remind me to put you on my list of MLBTR bloggers that I pay no mind too.

Damn. Cashman has been dead awful the last couple of years, signing pitchers. Cashman makes great trades when he's in the mood for them but thats all. Igawa, Farnsworth, Womack, Pavano, Jaret Wright. There just a few of the horrible signings he has done. The Nady trade I believe, saved his ass this year.

nrmax88. You're a little late in coming. YOU were already on my list.

3 more years of poop.
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What an awful deal. Cashman is awful.
Only reason I can see, is so he can be the puppet, and not really even do anything.

Lets not forget, he was at the architect of the greatest team to take the field since murderer's row..

Unlike managers, why would a GM have a shelf life? No players get tired of a GM's "Win one for the gipper" speech.. He didn't sign half the people that were put to bad contracts, he was at an 8 year deal w/ Vladdy before Georgie snuck in and slapped the Shef with a nice looking deal..

Yes, the Johan deal looks good but remember that he just threw 275 mil at A-Rod and the Mets had to give Johan a similar deal, having 2 of those contracts on your team will handcuff you for at least the length of the shorter contract..

Phil and Ian are still both under 23 years old. They have time, but they do need to make some moves. Serious trades, not signings. Leave Sabathia, Burnett, and all those other high-priced starters to teams who will pay them, we have people like Damon and Matsui who have value. Damon's off a great year, and Matsui can be kept or traded but I'd rather retain Abreu at a discound for DH and move Nady to right..

We'll see what cash can do but Hank needs to let Cash be Cash and stay out of it. I like how he draws attention away but he cannot make any actual decisions..

'Cashman looks forward to the challenge.'

So having a $200 mil payroll is a challenge? I think its more of a challenge for teams like the Twins or Rays that have limited funds.

HAHA i love the arguments from people who know nothing about the yankee hierarchy. Cashman didnt get full control from steinbrenner until 2005. Pavano would have been a great signing if he didnt get so injured. People forget about 10 teams wanted to sign him the media coverage was dubbed Pavanopalooza. Big stein also forced him to sign shef over vlad and insisted he go after randy johnson instead of beltran. And the challenge he is looking forward to is trying to wean the yankees from being reliant on big FA signing to a team built from within.

I'm a Yanks fan and you people make me sick! At the end of the day what are you blaming Cash for? Missing the playoffs once in his entire run as GM? The guy is trying to accomplish two things at once: 1) be competitive and make the playoffs in perhaps the toughest division in baseball 2) retool and get younger.

Each year you evaluate who's on the FA market and try to do the best you can and pick the right guys. Is it Cash's fault Pavano was so injured? is it Cash's fault Igawa couldn't handle the pressure? Those are unforeseen issues.

You people are unrealistic. We won 90 games despite having major injuries and being w/o Posada, Matsui, Hughes and Wang for most of the year.

As for our young players, people are acting like Hughes was a bust this year. The dude pitched 7 games and you figure a couple of those were with a cracked rib. Can you really say he was a bust in 7 games? I could see if this guy showed us nothing in the minors but not only was he one of the most sought after minor league pitchers in baseball by OTHER TEAMS but he dominated in the minors and showed really good stuff when he was called up last year.

And as for Kennedy you guys are ready to toss him aside as a throw in after only 9 starts this year. Do you people realize that he's only in his 2nd year since leaving college? THAT'S 2 YEARS IN THE PROS!!! He dominated A, AA, AAA and was in the majors all in one year. You say Cashman sucked for drafting him but BASEBALL AMERICA, NOT THE YANKEE MEDIA guide ranked him one of the top 25 prospects last year. Give these kids a break.

Everyone says we need to develop young pitchers but if those pitchers fail to win 18 games in their first year then we want to trade him. His record in 2 years in the minors is 18-6 with an era under 2.50. People compare him to a young Mike Mussina. Give these kids a break.

The pressure put on these kids is crazy. If they don't win ROY of the year then we label them a bust. Look at Melky. He may never be a superstar but do we really need an all-star at EVERY position or do we need someone who will hustle, play good defense and can give us a big hit here and there. So what he hit .250. HE's only 24!!!

Give Cash credit for some of the good moves...Cano, Wang, Abreu trade, Nady trade. The Randy Johnson trade gave us a two 17 win seasons. Damn..we fail to make the playoffs once and you want to run this guy out of town.

Can you imagine another GM coming into NY and trying to deal with "THE BOSSES", and I mean that as a plural. Cash could get a job with any team in baseball if he left and that should tell you something..

I'm not trying to defend him like I think he's perfect and has never made a mistake but I do think he's perfect for NY.

Now if he goes out and signs CC and Burnett, which is what most of us want him to do, and God forbid they go on the DL or fail to live up to what we expect do we then blame him for those deals as well?

Was there a better FA pitcher on the market who was an obvious pitcher we should have picked up but didn't?

No way the Mets let him go if all they need to offer is 3/27.

So, at what point do you blame Cashman? Sure he is trying to win and build for the future. SO IS EVERY OTHER GOOD CLUB. The only difference between Cash and other teams is about $100m/year in payroll. Forgive me for expecting him to win the WS every year.

And yes the Yanks have had some bad luck. So has every other team. Your list of injured players include (1) those that are really old or have known health issues or (2) kids. Color me NOT surprised that a 36 year old catcher goes down with a major injury.

No reasonable person is calling Hughes a bust. But, he is also now 2 years removed from being an elite prospect. Injuries do hurt a young players future. And Kennedy ... well I don't know any reputable scout that thought Kennedy would be more than a #3 starter (most said a #5). His ineffectiveness is not a shock to most MLBTradeRumors readers.

I like Cashman. I despise the Yankees but have tremendous respect for the organization. They really are baseball's ambassadors. That said, the expectation is for success, every year. Not making to the WS is a failure, any way you slice it.

You're right, playoffs 13 years in a row played in 5 world series' and won 3 in the past 10 yrs = nothing accomplished. All while playing in the same division as the team who won 2 of the last 3 WS.

Kind of funny. All the yankee fans seem to be happy while all the rest want to make fun of the yankees.

BTW, I would really like an Oliver Perez signing but I would imagine it would take more like 3/39.

yf78- logic and sound reasoning dont work with these trolls, they live to find yankee posts online and talk trash. Thats why you can go to posts for pretty much any other team and find actual baseball talk going on not OMG 200 mil payroll cashman sucks rofl yankees suck blah blah.

Also ollie perez looks very attractive, pretty young, lefty, good stuff. Until you realize that he led the entire NL in walks this year. Unless theres something glaringly wrong with his mechanics that can be easily fixed he should be off limits. Imagine him against the redsox and other good patient teams in the al... no thanks.

BTW:

Can anyone tell me what Ian Kennedy has done to be labeld a bust? He was drafted from USC in 2006 as a #1. He's ranked top 50 minor league prospect by baseball america in 2008. He pitched 1 game in 06. Went a combined 12-3 w/ a 1.91 era in 26 starts in 2007 and blew thru A, AA and AAA in his 1st year. Made it to the majors and pitched 3 games w/ a 1-0 and a 1.89 era. He struggled in 2008 starting with the Yanks and went 0-3 in 8 starts. Was sent down to the minors and went 6-3 in 13 starts w/ a 2.22 era.

Combined his minor league numbers are 18-6 w/ a 1.99 era in 226 innings in 2 years of professional baseball. He went 1-3 in 11 major league starts and 56 inning pitched with a crazy era of 5.56.

Can we really say this guys is a bust based upn only 11 starts in the majors considering that he's been out of college for only 2 years?

Compare him to the following starts by some of baseball's greats:

Greg Maddux (Drafted in '84)
-Spends 3 years in the minors.
-In '87 goes 6-14 w/ a 5.61 era in his rookie year.

Tom Glavine (Drafted in '84)
-Spends 4 years in the minors.
-In '88 goes 7-17 w/ a 4.56 era

John Smoltz (Drafted in '85)
-Spends 3 years in the minors
-In '88 goes 2-7 w/ a 5.48 era.

Kennedy has the following:

a) ranked highly by baseball experts outside the yanks organization.

b) a pedigree. one of the top college pitchers froma top univ known for producing top mlb pitchers (randy johnson, tom seaver, barry zito and mark prior).

c) numbers: 18-6 in 2 years in the minors w/ a sub 2.00 era.

d) youth. only 24 yrs old at the start of '09.

Give this kid along with Hughes, Chamberlain, Cano and Melky time to grow into their talent and see what you can get. We have enough time and money to surround them with other talent. But we need to grow young picthing or else we'll be doing the same thing every year...looking for next 150 million dollar pitcher to add.