Hank & Cash To Talk Contract
Via Ed Price:
Brian Cashman’s contract as Yankees general manager is up after the season, and Hank Steinbrenner intends to discuss an extension while Cashman is in Tampa, Fla., this week.
“We’re going to be talking about it,” said Steinbrenner, the team’s co-chairperson.
Cashman flew to Tampa yesterday for MLB’s First-Year Player Draft, which begins today. Asked if he wants to keep Cashman and if Cashman wants to stay, Steinbrenner said, “That’s the impression I get.”
Cashman, the team’s GM since 1998, likes to say he is focused only on this season and not his future, and some around baseball wonder if he wants to come back. Three years ago he deliberated for a couple of weeks before working out a new deal with increased authority.
At that time, two people who know Cashman well but asked not to be named because they were discussing his status, said Cashman was interested enough in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ GM opening to explore the housing market there.
When his contract is up after this season, one of the people said, the decision will be even harder for Cashman. There could be GM openings in Philadelphia and Seattle, among other organizations.
Here’s hoping that Hank Steinbrenner tells Brian Cashman the same thing that Horace Greeley told Josiah Grinnell.
