Email a copy of 'Yankees Notes: Playoffs, Tanaka, Player Development' to a friend
Loading ...
By | at
Email a copy of 'Yankees Notes: Playoffs, Tanaka, Player Development' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
Douglas Rau
Of course Cashman is going to say that. No one is ever going to say, “We’re out of it. I know we’re not mathematically out of it but realistically, we’re out of it.” No one, on any team or who works for the front office of any team, would say something like that publicly. Privately, I think Cashman and Girardi all know they really don’t have a shot but if you got the games to play anyway, might as well send out a representable team and try to win the game you’re playing that day. Hell, even after you’re eliminated, why not try to win a meaningless game? Better than losing a meaningless game. Tanaka coming back and showing he can rear back and throw it without fear of hurting that elbow would be big because it would be a vote of confidence, that he doesn’t need surgery.
BitLocker
Everyone knows that the Yankees have to win at least 15 straight of their 15 games just for the chance to at least get into the playoffs. I dislike this “homer” level of optimism that Cashman and everyone else in the Yankees organization have to front in front of the fans. I’d prefer the honest truth rather than leading the fans into a false sense of hope.
Mikenmn
I think the fans are pretty realistic. They see what’s going on in the field, regardless of whatever Cashman says. The Yankees have had a tough year with a huge number of things go wrong. We want great, winning teams, but we aren’t impossible to please.
108 stitches
What is Cashman supposed to say? The Yankees are not completely out of it. He should be talking about winning. The fans know the odds but part of Cashman’s job is public relations.
Douglas Rau
I don’t think it’s just the Yankee way of doing things. I think if the Giants or the Royals or the Rays were in this place, their GM would be saying, “We’re going to fight for that spot until it’s completely mathematically impossible”. Because otherwise, you’re telling your fans, “Hey, thanks for coming out this year. No reason to come to the ball park for the last 8 home games” or however many they have to play. That last whistle is going to blow soon enough. Might as well play hard right up until it does.
tesseract
There is no “meaningless” game in MLB. A win roughly makes or breaks close to $2 MM for a team. For that much money involved, I would not call a game meaningless even if it decides your post-season or not
jjs91
I don’t see the need to separate position players that were drafted from those that were IFA signings. It’s not like Newman is a strong part of either process. Either way change can be be good.
LazerTown
Right, but his job is about putting the right people in the right positions. I would think Oppenheimer has a bigger role in selecting the right players. Maybe they like Oppenheimer, but think that the problem lies more in developing the players. That would make me think that entirely up the line the problem is with the coaches, or maybe that players are moving a bit aggressively. Seems Newman is more the fall guy for not having the right people in charge.
jjs91
The coaches change pretty frequently. Patterson, and rowson are rather new. I don’t think they have a big problem with newman, he’s still there at instructs apparently.
b-rar
> Under Newman, the Yankees failed to draft any star players since 1996.
That’s certainly debatable. The term “star” is ambiguous in itself but Brett Gardner, David Robertson, Ian Kennedy, Dellin Betances, and maybe Tyler Clippard could all qualify.
If anything, Newman might be a victim of the Yankees’ success. It’s hard to generate homegrown superstars when you make the playoffs every year for a decade and a half and lose what early picks you do get to free agency. And they’ve wasted 1st round picks when Gerrit Cole and Mark Prior refused to sign.
Douglas Rau
Gardner is the best everyday player on that current team. He’s a borderline All Star. He’s not Mike Trout but only one guy in the world is.