The Yankees announced today that they have activated starter Domingo German from the injured list. Southpaw Stephen Tarpley was optioned down to open active roster space.
German ultimately missed just shy of a month of action owing to a hip flexor strain. He’ll rejoin the rotation this evening in a Subway Series matchup.
The Yanks will hope that the 26-year-old can get back to the form he showed for most of the early portion of the season. Through his first ten starts of the year, German carried a 2.60 ERA. He was tagged for seven long balls and 14 earned runs in his next three outings, though, leaving him with a cumulative 3.86 ERA over seventy total frames.
Despite an array of health issues and a few performance lapses, the Bronx Bombers are now easily pacing the AL East. But the rotation figures to be the prime area of focus at the deadline. The team’s need in that area will be reduced greatly if German can rediscover his groove. Tamping down on the long balls figures to be a key.
Not the ace they’ll need.
But the ace they deserve.
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he is making a joke. specifically a reference to The Dark Knight. you know.. batman
Perfect timing. German should get them 1 1/2 years of Mike Leake.
God I hope you’re joking
This is welcomed news but not the answer to the rotation problems. Fingers crossed for Bauer. I think he would thrive under the NY pressure.
Cleveland is in the wild card picture and gaining on the Twins. I am not sure that Bauer will be available until the off season.
I’m afraid you’re right. A month ago Bauer looked like a safe bet to get traded but now the Indians are playing well
It’s def not the answer but it’s good news.
What I really need to know is how bad Luke’s hurt? Is this guy going to come back after 10 days? Or is this another Yankeeland 30 day cover up?
Stanton with Stanton hurt I think the Yankees need to upgrade LF running Gardner out there every day is going have more negative then positive.
Current SP staff what’s going? Has anyone heard of anything so far or is this a big screct as everything else in Yankee land.
Luke = Is a big need at 1b without him Yankees ain’t winning.
LF – Gardner is NOT the answer no matter what any of you think.
SP – Need two and not two Lynns or craps that slapped against the wall.
Luke = Is a big need at 1b without him Yankees ain’t winning.
Lol, what? The Yankees have had everybody and their mother on the DL this year and have managed to do very well. They lose Voit, and all of a sudden, they’re ain’t winning? Interesting.
Gardy is not ideal but adequate in LF. My expectation is that they’ll call up Frazier soon.
Yes, they need another starter.
no one thinks the 4th OFer is the answer. why you continue to pretend why the team is solely relying on his production is beyond me
Because he plays every day. Outta the 83 games the Yankees played Brett Gardner has played in 79.. That’s not a 4th outfielder that’s an every day player. If the Yankees are going to continue playing a 4th outfielder as a starter which I already knew was going to happen before the season. They need to look some place else and quickly.
Sooo you predicted this offseason that Stanton, Hicks, and Judge would all spend significant time on the IL and Frazier’s defense would tank so we mystically have to use your least favorite player who was signed on as a 4th outfielder with the announced plan to rest him more for the season?? WOW you’re a baseball oracle!!! We should demand you be put on a throne!! Worshipped and given all our precious belongings!!! Can you please tell me the lottery numbers for the next mega millions before it comes out??
Of course not but I new watch the Yankees they’ll fine a way to get Gardner into 162 games during the season. What the Yankees should have done was look into M Brantley he’s having an amazing season and the LF bat. That’s someone I wanted them to look into but what they do yea we know bring back Gardner as the 3rd outfielder.
Gardner hasn’t played 162 games in any year of his career. Stop exaggerating. He was not brought in to be anything other than the 4th outfielder. It’s not his fault that the other outfielders got hurt and Frazier has sucked defensively. Give Cashman some credit for what he did do… signed DJ laMehieu … no you didn’t see that coming.. got Voit last year.. no you didn’t see that coming… Paxton trade was a good move.. yes he went with the devil he knew in Gardy CC and Happ… CC finishing his HOF career as a Yankee gets a lot of press.. Happ was great for us last year in his first 11 games and it was a logical thought he could continue plus there were not better options that wouldn’t have been overpriced IE Corbin. PLUS who could’ve predicted Sevy getting injured. You’re Monday morning quarterbacking. You fail to account for what we had at the moment of each FA acquisition or trade. You might as well blame Cashman for Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw not being available.
How much are you going to like Cashman when the Yankees get bounced in the playoffs due to mediocre starting pitching?
As much as I would like him if he can afford to extend Judge, Torres, Severino etc by not blowing salary cap on mediocre pitching. All that is available out there for a fair price is mediocre starting pitching. If Scherzer was available SURE if Kershaw or DeGrom or any other elite would as available I’d see your point… but MadBum or Stroman or the like don’t get you over the hump. Cole is a free agent at seasons end … more teams will be reasonable about trades this offseason… now IF you can get a trade that’s reasonable for a Wheeler, or Bauer, Boyd, or even Kluber that doesn’t include them asking for Gleyber than of course you do it. But the asking prices to date have been INSANE! You don’t sell your car just because you need gas money. You guys are nuts to see it differently. Cash will get a pitcher… probably not an ace .. but a guy better than Happ but not as good as Tanaka. That’s the range of options out there right now. That’s the reality not the video game force trade mode delusion.
CF is the weakest position on the team … move Gardner to CF call up frazier send hicks to the bench. Gardner is performing at a positive level while Hicks is at best replacement. Put Frazier in left and Gardner in CF you have put in upgrades at 2 positions. with one roster move.
Not sure why you hate gardner so much but seem to ignore hicks is not doing anything and is even worse at the plate in pretty much every stat. Is it because Hicks will be here next year while Gardner will most likely not be resigned? Personally i would play the better player and let the injury prone play when needed as defensive replacement or to rest others.
They’re not sitting Hicks… his arm is 2nd only to Judge in the outfield… he’s a switch hitter signed to a long term contract.. and finished 2nd in the AL last year for center fielders neaten only by Trout! He’s still working his way back from injury it looks like.
Hicks has the stronger arm but Judge is lethally accurate while still throwing 100mph bullets
Not sure if Hicks has the stronger arm there … that shot from center to home plate was filthy but Judge just had sooo much power. Still Both great in the outfield
Dude Hicks is shaking off the rust but to claim he’s a bench player at best is a horrible joke. The fact that Gardner’s numbers are just barely…marginally better than Hicks yet Hicks was an absolute better hitter the last two years makes me think he just needs to get his timing down from coming off the DL and should be a much better hitter in the long run.
SP will probably end up with a Robby Ray Alex Wood type unless a deal can get done for Bauer… maybe Wheeler but I doubt it. There’s just no aces available and the next tier down like Boyd.. they’re asking for Gleyber to open the negotiations so that’s where that is..
1B Hopefully Voit isn’t on the IL for long but it does seem with everyone getting injured that it’s his turn. In the meantime EE and Ford as backup. It’s a major concern though.
LF Man you have a serious hate on for Gardy. Cool your jets … he’s better than Tauchman or Frazier defensively and has better legs on the basepaths… he’s a streaky hitter always has been and after 11 years or so with the team you should be used to it by now. Going out and blowing cap space when we still have Maybin and Frazier in the wings is silly. Screaming about Gardner is like screaming about Romine. Both provide much more intangibles. Both are backups that are getting more use than they normally do over the passed few years… both are serviceable replacement players for an affordable rate. It’s not changing. Probably Gardy’s last season … chill out.
Wow how delusional are the Tigers to ask for Gleyber for a pitcher with a career ERA near 5? Where did you read that?
Yanks go yard and cbs sports both did the reporting on it 4-5 days ago. It was stupid insane.
And people are even saying Andujar + Torres for Boyd.
Boyd fetches a decent prospect for control, but not much else.
His track record is terrible, and he’s been regressing to his career mean rapidly.
They need Luis Severino to hurry up and come back, THAT is what they need.
Agreed, but anything they get from him this year is a bonus. They’re eating he’ll be back late August at best.
Wondering what kind of salary and prospects the Yankees will make available to get a front end starter as i think there top 2 are on IL. Frazier im guessing is top of heap maybe adams?
Not sure how much they can get for Adams. His flaws are showing ALOT in the paste two seasons. There’s a lot of extra pieces in the single and double a’s but no real headliners. Deivi Garcia maybe, but the main trade bait pieces right now are probably Frazier, Loiasiga, Estrada, Florial. That’s what people will be asking for I should think.
Florial is struggling at High A and Loisaiga can’t stay healthy. I would bet that Deivi Garcia would be the Yanks #1 prospect by the end of the year. He’s at AA now so he’s not that far away and his 1114 ks over 14 starts and 68 IP is impressive. That works out to almost 15:9 IP. He just needs to improve his control. Probably not ready to be called up to start until 2020/2021. He’s only 20 and at AA. No need to rush him but he looks to be a pretty good pitching prospect. Just hope he can stay healthy.
I see your point but there is a lot of scouts that are questioning Deivi’s build and stature. Florial and Loiasiga are still our top two prospects that are actually considered prospects. Estrada and Frazier are our MLB ready players. Loiasiga will probably profile as a reliever as will Garcia
That we Yankee fans are desperate for German’s return and looking at him as a savior reflects horribly on Cashman’s ability to build a starting pitching staff….
German had been close to Ace caliber until he got hurt.
How is wanting his return desperation?
are you insane? The Yankees are desperate for sp. every single year they are desperate b/c they never make the off season move for an ace. I like german but would not yet say “awesome, he is up against verlander in October”
meanwhile- b/c the yanks blew their coin on others and the lack of available aces who he’s lost in the past, Cash is shopping on the cheap again, rest assured the next era of Jaime Garcia, lance Lynn and happless will be brought in for reinforcements.
Yankee fans who don’t get the game will be thrilled. Until one of these lovable losers get bombed in game 3 or 4 in Houston or wherever…..
What ace has been available in the last 3 -5 years? Cole? Pirates got a package haul better than the Yankees could offer without losing Gleyber… Sale? Boston has the number one prospect in baseball and more they gave up for him. Morton, Keuchel, Archer … there has been NO ACE AVAILABLE. Will you guys please stop posting this nonsense. If Scherzer or Kershaw or DeGrom or a true ace were available then The Yanks would go all in… but there is nothing but 2-3 starters out there for the moment. Hell a second tier guy like Boyd has the Tigers reportedly asking for Gleyber! Chill and wait. There are moves to be made.
what ace?- how about the following list. think any one of these would have been better than happless, CC, and the lot?? (btw CC and Happ make more this year than most of em)
scherzer- was a FA and the genius passed
Sale- cash didn’t want to pay the price, but the Yanks sure have as a team
Verlander- Cash thought he washed up, yet the yanks have yet to score on him since the trade
Cole- see sale
Even Price and Corbin should be considered given that Price was great in October last year and has a ring, and Corbin has clearly outperformed Pax and Happless while playing on a team whose defense is LL like.
Cash doesn’t want to pay the price for a legit ace- be it cash or prospects. B/c of that Boston has won 3 WS since the yanks, and even the cubs and houston have won recently.
These are facts
All these guys too would be winning more on the Yankees
Scherzer I’ll give you. Sale was a trade for the number one prospect in baseball plus a haul that we couldn’t match .. Cole Pirates wouldn’t budge from both Torres’s AND Andujar … if you think having Cole on our team is more important than Gleyber we have a bigger debate.. Verlander has 29 other GMs including the one he spent his ENTIRE career with pass on him and no one saw it coming, Corbin wanted an albatross contract that would’ve hamstring the Yankees future for signing Didi Judge Gleyber Sevy etc to long term contracts and if you think Corbin is worth any ONE of those players we have a bigger debate to go to…. Proce’s regular season numbers have been horrible so far in his time with the Red Sox and calling him anywhere close to an Ace is laughable but even if we did sign him .. you still need to win the season to get to the playoffs where he thrives. Bumming on Cash for Scherzer I’ll give you … but remember every time you root for Didi, Voit Gleyber, Sanchez, LaMehieu, Chapman…twice… Britton, Ottavino, German, Tanaka, CC or Happ or Paxton … these were all his moves for better or worse. He’s done more to build a future and you Harp in him for one legitimate Miss in Scherzer
I don’t disagree that he has made shrewd moves but for a guy who gets all the credit in the world and has all the resources in the world he has fallen short where it matters and for one reason only. You think the stros Sox or cubs would give back their rings for the successful prospects who were traded away. I want to win not come in bronze every year. Ergo he has failed. Since we last won a WS title the damn Sox have won 3. I want to hurl and he gets no free pass.
Ok but look at the Sox now … the Astro’s moves are still paying off but look at the run they can make in the long haul. It’s a 3 little pigs routine .. Boston built by straw… no foundation left in the farm system to trade or call up. Stros weak farm and having cap issues that will not let them keep all there players .. building with sticks… Yanks are trying to build a dynasty … restocked the farm a bit and have some trade chips… have cap space to not pay our competitors through the luxury tax and sign our young players to build a dynasty run of several years just like we did in 96 on … building with bricks. Yes the Yankees have tons of resources but it doesn’t mean he should spend them stupidly… he tried that once when he signed CC Tex and AJ Burnett all in the same off-season… didn’t work out so well … spent a fortune on ARod … not so great a move… let Cano go .. great move if you want to maintain a course of committing money smarter. The luxury tax IS a big deal… and in the end … if the Steinbrenner’s wanted to spend to get better they’d let Cashman spend. You can’t put it all on him man. He’s a GM not an owner … he doesn’t have the final say… he presents the final options. You try prying $17 million out of a rich guy… not as easy as you might think.
If he comes back even resembling what he showed early on, it lightens the load other teams might expect in a trade for another SP. supply and demand. Probably going to get Wheeler from the Mets for chump change as far as prospects. Just the nature of the business.
we are getting closer to an agreement! however, we are going to have to agree to disagree. BTW the yanks farm is rated at 20 now. houston 8 and boston 30. It helped that we promoted studs- but he also wasted assets as he traded 4 guys ranked in the top 100 at the time of the deal for nada…
It just feels like Cash plays for a chance in October not to top October- the teams that have won it overpay to get what they are missing. That what it costs period. Either cash does it or we roll the dice again. Look at it this way. If this team has a legit ace who would be the clear favorites????? we are dominant with the sticks, the pen which he spends a fortune on to cover for his SP failures is good enough, but Pax and Tanaka have not proven to consistent enough to match up in October against the top 2 from the other contenders. THAT IS ON CASH
With the international signing of Jasson Dominguez that system moves up. That’s also on Cash. The move to get guys like Devi Garcia and Esteven Florial are on Cash too. When you have to maneuver to put your whole system into position to be able to make the trades to get the aces… it takes time. There’s a long term plan in the works, but you like many other Yankee fans are being extremely impatient. We’re actually a year ahead of schedule considering the surprise of Judge. No one projected he was going to be as good as he has been. Aces don’t grow on trees. Their availablility is never a guaranteed. Homegrowing one is not an easy as we’ve seen with Sevy. So the best available option is to increase our strengths to cover our weaknesses. Hence the Demon of a bullpen and power bats. While I can understand your frustration with the lack of a solid ace… remember that CC HAS been our ace until he got injured and lost his fastball. He’s had to reinvent himself. So in truth .. Cashman did sign an ace the first time he signed CC … then did sign a Verlander renaissance type when he believed in CC and brought him back. He’s done what you’re demanding here. The fact that since those moves there have been no aces to be acquired is hardly on him. We can agree or disagree on opinions but there are facts here that cannot be disputed. Hey if you don’t like Cashman that’s your right… but saying he hasn’t tried hard enough to get an ace .. or hasn’t steered this team into the 100+ wins a year team it is and should continue to be is just factually not true.
dude- I’m ok with banter but do not falsify and manipulate what I type. I never said he hasn’t tried, i typed that he has failed b/c he refuses to pay the price in talent or dollars. World Series winners pay those prices. Mock Boston all you want they have won 4 WS in cashman’s tenure to his one. The stros, cubs, and royals all made big costly moves to get what they needed and have rings to show for it.
Cash with the deepest personnel and technology talent in scouting and analytics should win the smaller trades like hicks and voight… Just like companies that pay more get better talent.
Umm ok well then use the correct numbers and I won’t argue with you. Cashman has been GM since 1998 the Yankees have won 4 titles since he’s been GM … Red Sox have also won 4 titles in his tenure. So what numbers am I falsifying? I’m seriously trying to figure out if you are just deliberately trying to make numbers fit so you can have a successful argument because you dislike this guy so much…. or you really don’t know the Yankees WS record under Cashman? Which is it?
So you’re giving cash the credit for the core four’s first 4? That’s kinda funny. But ok. Since he won with the studs he inherited he’s won once. Is that better? Since the yanks last won a decade ago Boston have won 3 times. Is that better?
Besides the only number that matters is that we haven’t won in a decade. So yes you’re correct he’s a genius
And what did Theo Epstein inherit with the Red Sox when he broke the curse of the babe? What did he inherit with the Cubs when he went there. It’s a double standard beyond crazy dude. He’s a good GM that just hasn’t in hindsight made the moves you wanted. Doesn’t mean he’s bad. Simple as that .. but trying to manipulate facts to suit your opinion is crap. Sorry to call you on it … but it is what it is.
Listen .. I get that we’re all wanting a 28th ring here. I seriously do. But I think your spend whatever you can to win now philosophy here isn’t in the long term plans for the club. Expecting them to just grab a Keuchel or MadBum because SP is an area of need or some other overpay example … is only going to get you more and more disappointed in the way this team runs. The game has changed a bit. Free agents are not the hot commodity they were in the past. Look at how long it took teams to sign Kimbrel or Keuchel this year. We have a good core … but you don’t need to go into the luxury tax thresholds over and over spending on free agents or selling the farm in trades. There is a better way and it’s what the whole organization and most of the rest of baseball are doing. For the right piece … yes … but the right piece hasn’t come along yet. Now you can second guess all day long why the Yankees passed on guys. But neither of us is ever going to be in that war room man. We don’t know all the facts. We probably won’t until someone writes a book in a decade. Is it on Cash to make this team better? ABSOLUTELY! That’s his job… but he has done it. Maybe not up to your standards… but that’s an opinion not a fact. The numbers don’t lie that he’s won just as many WS rings as the Red Sox since he started.
this is your most balanced entry yet. i still don’t get how you so easily absolve him from this decade old SP disaster. he has proven adept at position player acquisition and at outbidding the planet for the pen, but his SP accumen thus far stinks.
i don’t disagree with your comment about the budget either other than to say 17 mil per for 3 years of happless plus 18 mil more in cc and gardy better not be an inhibitor if an ace opportunity arises .
im not giving cash credit for 97-01. its ridiculous. in 05 he nearly left the team cause he had little control. he did not assemble those teams and hevwas not the architect.
Please understand I’m not absolving him. I’m saying he didn’t make bad choices… he had a lack of options. Other than the miss of Scherzer which I’ll gladly grant you .. I just don’t see where there’s been an ace available that doesn’t cost the team in the long haul. It’s not provable either way that free agents like Corbin would’ve made a difference he’s not a legitimate ace. Gerri Cole would’ve been nice but I don’t see how Cashman could’ve made a better offer than the Astris did. We didn’t have the prospects for Sale. So counting these as Cashman’s misses doesn’t seem a fair accounting. I’m not here to be his white knight or anything… and there are deals he’s made that I hated! Sonny Gray, ARod, Burnett , and many more… but that doesn’t mean it’s all on him. Like you said, he wasn’t always the architect .. so you can’t give him credit for everything.. but that also means you can’t give him blame for everything either.
i’m only blaming him for the SP debacle. Unfortunately i also think its like the QB of a Fottball team and the most important position. hence my belief that his failure in this area in the single biggest reason why its been a decade since a parade. Its also the number one threat to them having one this year. As such he needs to get one and pay the price- enough is enough.
Ok I agree we need one but again I ask whom? That’s the crux of the debate between us. Which team is going to let go of their ace? Especially with this being the first year of change to the waiver deadlines? Is Bauer an ace? Debatable.. but Indians are closing the gap. So Kluber is in that mix too. If the Nats resign Rendon then there’s no way they let go of Scherzer and even if the put him on the market .. do we have a package better than any other team? DeGrom, Syndergard , Wheeler? Mets are going to want way more than we have to give… Stroman, Boyd, MadBum? Not aces that would get you over the top. There’s not a lot out there. It’s not like he can just run down to the SP store an order one up. It’s probably going to be a Robbie Ray / Alex Wood type. Better than Happ but not as good as Tanaka. That’s the range. That’s the most expectation I think anyone should give this. I’d love to see Cashman pull a coup … but I just don’t see it. No unless a string of impossible events hits.
And with those as the options … is that Cash’s fault? If DeGrom or Scherzer is on the market but the Mets or Nats refuse to trade unless we give up Torres or Judge or some other nonsense… is that Cashmans fault? Detroit asked for Gleyber for Boyd … BOYD! SP’s are at a premium … especially established ones. I don’t think Frazier , Florial, Estrada, and Loasiga even adding Deivi is going to get it done. Those are our expendable pieces that have trade worth and not all of them are headliners. I don’t include Andujar because of injury.. but I guess you could. I just don’t think that gets you much closer. I’d give every one for a Scherzer… but there’s clubs that could and probably would offer much more.
This is on Cash to address. he is the GM not me or you- its his job. That is what he is paid to do and this is my point.
If it were me we would have signed scherzer and paid the price for one of the sale/cole/verlander and not have signed happ cc and gardy (that saves 35 mil right there). I get that we may be down a prospect or two, but it doesn’t matter. great pitching beats great hitting 90% of the time
In No Particular Order and only those brought in by cash to make a difference/solidify (most of these from memory and many of em cash thinking he found a young gem) my list does not include all the homegrown failures as I don’t have the time… think speed round from Ted
vazquez
pavano
randy johnson way past his prime
kevin brown way past his prime
Igawa
Vazguez again
jaime garcia
lance lynn
Happ
sonny gray
ponson (the big sexy part deuz)
colon! (ok like ponson brought it to secure the back end but still amusing and bad)
pineda
eovaldi
capuano
there are so many others. we are not the Rays or Marlins…..
Ok .. but he also brought you Tanaka, Paxton, Severino, CC in his prime, Mike Mussina, Rodger Clemens.. oh yeah that was Cashman… , David Wells, Chieng Man Wang who was looking amazing until a fluke accident in Citi field… Hiroki Kiroda , not to mention the bullpen he’s assembled over the years. So it’s not like the guy didn’t make SP moves that helped the Yankees. If it were you … seriously now … and you had the offer on the table to give away Judge and Gleyber for Sale … tell me would you really do it? Really?! I don’t think there is anyone with a lick of sense that does it and that’s just my opinion. Pitching will come … but timing is everything
For all those moves you point out I again say- we have one one World Series In nearly 18 years. That one was won thanks to the one time cash actually secured an top ace. Every other one has been a failure.
3 plus years ago I would have given up judge for sale. Maybe not today… but I do know this. At worst sale beats judge 75 percent of the time
And teams aren’t asking for a prospect or two… that’s where you’re minimalizing things a bit here. They’re asking for Gleyber, they asked for Judge, they asked for Severino .. they ask for our future stars … those are proven players that you build around. Just like we did with the core four. I don’t know if you are accounting for this … but we have been in rebuilding the last 3-4 seasons now and it’s coming to fruition. We added O’Neil and Brosius when the Core Four needed it … we added Clemens Wells Cone etc …. then went on a stretch trying to prolong that. Adding pieces. Cc Burnnet Tex, ARod Etc… it’s the same process with less available SPs
Additionally the reason why I win this debate is simple. How many World Series teams has he built and how much of an advantage does he have over the others GMs to win??
And how many times has Sale lost to the Yankees? As a team … as the team Cashman has built? Listen last year the Red Sox has everything swing there way. They had a historic run and won 108 games … look at them now. Look at Sale now .. his fastball is lost and he’s trying to find it. Look at the Yankees now.. playing damn near injury proof baseball and even with a mediocre SP staff we’re how many games over the Red Sox? Dude I get you think that SP wins you a World Series and I won’t argue that… but it’s not the only thing that wins it for you. Even if Max Scherzer or Jacob DeGrom gets on the Yankees tomorrow it doesn’t guarantee ANYTHING. That’s baseball . Tanaka has been a killer in the postseason… we don’t know when Sevy will be back … Paxton has plenty of time to turn into a potential ace or at the very least a solid #2 … CC has been looking better and better .. German is having a stellar year. Not to mention there’s bright lights coming from the farm with Garcia and possibly Montgomery so I wouldn’t be going crazy for what’s out there right now. Again if Scherzer or a legit ace becomes available you make the best play you can… but it’s unlikely to happen and the team we built to date is likely a WS team.
And the Red Sox have the same advantages. They’ve spent more than the Yankees in the time period you’ve listed … they have just as big a market … same with the Dodgers same with the Cubs… the Yankees aren’t the only big market team in baseball.. you’re reaching man. Desperately reaching
Additionally this isn’t about whether Cashman has done a great job or not. This is about you posting only one side of a story to suit your opinion. You make it sound like Cash has never tried for a SP ace or otherwise… that’s untrue. You say well you don’t count this and don’t count that but then say under Cashmans tenure he’s only one 1 WS … also untrue… then you want to talk about inheriting the core four and how the Red Sox won 3 then .. ok they also were under 2 different GMs in that 3WS run.. can you not see how omitting the other half of the story to suit your storyline is incorrect. You win nothing in this debate … because you keep altering it to suit your needs. Tell the whole story and your arguments fall apart. You have every right to your opinion but not to your own facts.
Let’s just agree to end this and wait and see. I stand by my math that the yanks have not won a work series in a decade (btw in that 10 year span they spent more in total bucks than the dodgers and six but what whatever). Again I never said cash hasn’t tried only that he has failed (he has)
Let’s just pray that he either finally acquires one this year or the current guys outperform their track records and pull it together.
Ps- you have proven my point by comparing cash to the Sox and dodgers who both have aces and who both have been to multiple works series in the last decade
I will agree to end this , but I will not concede that your point has been proven. Red Sox 4 WS titles .. Yankees … 4WS titles .. both spent tons of money so did the Cubs and Dodgers. No legit aces available. The only thing you’ve proved is that you have an opinion… and that opinion is you think Cash has done a bad job. Ok that’s your opinion. No prob. If you want it to be fact then measure him fairly against other GMs in that time frame. Epstein has probably done the best .. but at the cost of both the Red Sox and the Cubs future by trading away everything of value. I don’t see that as better than what Cash has done.. but that’s my opinion.
As my 16 year old would say “peace out!” Till the next round.
As my boy would say “ Yes Sir!” Lol He’s in the Air Force now been a good debate. Hope you and yours stay healthy and well.