NY Baseball Digest: Recap Of Cashman On Mad Dog Unleashed
Chris Silva has a nice “Recap of Cashman on Mad Dog Unleashed” at NY Baseball Digest. A snip:
Russo pulled no punches as he grilled Cashman with some very direct questions about the deadline and Yankees plans for the pennant race. Cashman had a great game plan to fill in the gaps but couldn’t muster a deal that made sense for both sides. The Yankees track record to “pay whatever necessary” seems to have come back to bite them. Teams held up the Yankees, for what Cashman called “overpriced demands” (wonder where you heard that before), on any level of talent the Yankees inquired about. However, I think many teams misplayed their hands and were too quick to call Cashman’s bluff. Look to see the Yankees try to fill those holes during the waiver period.
…Cashman had a great game plan to fill in the gaps but couldn’t muster a deal that made sense for both sides…
Sounds like the time in 1976 when I had “a great game plan” to get Jenny Agutter to materialize from ‘the circuit,’ in her Logan’s Run toga, of course, at my house…but “couldn’t muster” the technology that would marshal time, space, reality and fiction in a way “that made sense” for all concerned…
i’m shocked cashman bothers with Russo at all now that he’s no longer a NY media member…I was under the impression those 2 didn’t get along
It is so great not having to endure that guy on WFAN anymore.
When have the Yankees overpaid in a trade in recent memory? The Nady/Marte trade was dumb, imo, but there was a rational basis for the cost in player personnel terms.
Anyone have examples? To me, that’s a false meme which is a legacy from when George was calling the shots.