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Check what @Remote and myself have written about their GM Brian Cashman in this thread. Add it to Hal Steinbrenner not wanting to spend and not caring about winning while allowing cashman and team president Randy Levine to turn the clubhouse toxic with their arrogance, complacency, and no accountability and you have a dumpster fire organization. It’s basically as follows:
Cashman under Hal’s ownership has allowed the team to pass on stars for years in favor of washed up vets on the cheap because he won’t make a deal unless he feels like he’s getting one over on the other GM. He’s perpetually insecure about getting no credit for the 1996-2003 run that he has no hand in building. Gene Michael, Bob Watson, and the 1990 GM whose name I forget drafted and traded for all the greats while George personally worked the roger Clemens trade and Jason Giambi signing.
He won’t play the prospects that he won’t trade for stars even when said washed up vets he trades for on bad contracts turn out to suck. He then hangs onto said prospects until they lose all value. Feel free to scroll through the last 15-16 pages of this thread to see us all talk about in detail how badly they ruin prospects. 10 of their last 14 first round picks didn’t reach the majors. He also due to fear of the shift, his terrible analytics team, and his refusal to do it anyone’s way but his own, won’t get any lefty batters despite the stadium being designed to cater to lefty batters, guys who can run, or guys who hit for a high average. He regularly also plays guys out of position. He’s spent years without a catcher, shortstop, left fielder, or centerfielder. His philosophy is proven to not work over the past 20 years too as they’ve got a losing record in the postseason vs every team they’ve seen more than once except the twins. Since 2004 they’re 0-3 vs Boston, 0-3 vs Detroit, & 0-4 vs Houston and they still never change anything. Just make excuses, look for a scapegoat, call the playoffs a crapshoot and then run it back the next year. Their manager is very obviously nothing more than an incompetent puppet who does whatever the GM lays out as the plan. He had no managerial experience when he was hired to manage a team of young guys who got within 1 game of the World Series.
Cashman also due to his ego can’t get along with star players. He routinely lowballs them in negotiations and disrespects them to their face while leaking his offers to the press to try making the player look bad. He chases franchise legends out of town while showing them no respect. Jeter, A-Rod, Bernie Williams, and Aaron Judge all openly have problems with him for this reason. It’s not a coincidence that these guys are rarely around the team anymore and for what the Yankees have been about for their history, that’s a really bad look.
They’ve won their division just twice since 2013 and since 2002 have the worst track record in baseball at both developing prospects and getting wins out of the money they spend. Basically Hal is a terrible owner for every reason you can imagine and allows the worst GM in the sport to run the franchise however he sees fit.
As it relates to Hal, money is his only concern by his own admission. The 2017 team with young guys on the cheap got within 1 game of the World Series and he responded by cutting $31 million off the payroll by opening day 2018 even after his passing on Justin Verlander burned them when he beat them twice in the ALCS. He cut 20% off the payroll after 2020 as well and is planning to do it on 2024 as well. He’s the exactly type of owner his dad openly hated for ruining the sport.
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