I would like Cashman to explain why Hawkins, Traber & Moeller are on the roster.

As for the “contingency” plan, they had arms to go in place of Hughes & IPK; who does he think has been picking up their starts? Chamberlain was moved into the rotation, Rasner was called up. Ponson is here because Wang got injured.

Don’t think anyone saw the offense performing as bad as they have this year. That’s where the problem is; the pitching has done much better than expected, IMO.

The problem is that every player he relied on, failed miserably.

Hughes, Kennedy, Hawkins, Ensberg. He has made a lot of bad signings over the years and it has caught up to him right now.

The next 2 months could dictate his legacy.

The problem here is that Cashman had no contingency plan, nothing to back up two rookies who were rushed into the rotation, and no solutions to an anemic-and often clueless–offense.
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Given that Carlos Silva signed a monstrosity of a contract, I don’t know what Cashman could’ve done in free agency. Apart from Kyle Lohse, I have no idea who the Yanks could’ve had as a contingency plan. After all, that person (or persons) would’ve had to agree to a minor league assignment. Why would someone agree to be in AAA for the Yanks when they can be in the big leagues for another team?

As far as the offense is concerned, Allard’s criticism is preposterous. What sort of contingency would one have in mind for an offense that had scored nearly 2000 runs over the past two seasons? Did anyone figure that Jeter seemed cooked as a regular baseball player in 2008? Did anyone figure that Robinson Cano would have a disastrous first half?

The team has issues, only some of which could have been prevented or planned for. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t be here. But, again, until you can show me all the moves that Cashman left on the table, we’re back at square one with hollow criticisms and no proposed solutions.