Brian Cashman’s blind spot, though, might be Brian Cashman.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Brian Cashman knows fully what no one outside his inner circle can know – which wings of his department favored what, how much money he was allowed to apply by ownership to his roster and what the available choices were.
Cashman wisely noted that no amount of explanation would dissuade anyone who has made up their mind about his operation and that the only way to truly reverse this animus is to win in 2024. But I think that is because they have isolated 2023 as the bad season, when 2023 is a symptom of several years of particularly poor personnel decisions. It was not a one-year thing and to treat it as thus is to confirm the insularity.
Cashman talked about injuries being at the core of the team’s 2023 failures. And Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo suffered freak injuries. But the group that should have helped the Yanks weather such injuries was composed of injury-prone players who – shock among shocks – keep getting hurt: trading for Josh Donaldson and Giancarlo Stantfon, picking up Luis Severino’s option and signing Carlos Rodon to name a few Cashman moves.
Cashman said one reason the Yankees obtained Gallo is that his former Rangers teammate Rougned Odor, who was four months into his Yankee tenure, said Gallo could handle New York. That felt like the Yankees had spent years trying to obtain Gallo and were going to listen to voices who backed him, for there were lots of folks in the game who believed Gallo would be a mess in New York.
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