well those are the guys who legitimately can go. Rodon's not going anywhere. Judge isn't going anywhere. I'm sure the pen has guys who can get moved but that goes for anyone.
2019 they spent $17 million on Happ, $13 million on Britton, $8 million on Ottavino, $8 million on CC, $21 million on ellsbury, & $10 million on hicks.
how their money is allocated is why I don't fully rip Hal for his blanket statements regarding payroll. The issue yes is how they spend, but it's also this lack of want to "cut corners" by actually developing cost controlled talent. All that takes is great scouting which they don't have and because they think they're always in win now mode, from Cashman down to Judge they don't wanna use young guys because they assume they won't be contributors to a title team which is dead wrong. Even the success stories of young players here are either by accident or by a silent admission that they're retooling which is how Judge and the Baby Bombers got on in the first place. If they're in silent admission mode now, then let Warren get every opportunity to fail. Make HIM the 4th starter. Let Ben Rice get as many at bats as he needs to see if we should go hard after Murakami. Get Wells more AB's. Volpe and the Martian you already know. That's the focus now. If Cookie or whoever they dig up catches lightning in a bottle (possible), great, but that's a bonus.
Going at Hal is more than fair because he’s had so many chances to fire Cashman where it would’ve been justified. 2010, 2013-15, and 2021-22 were all obvious chances. That Dennis Green “crown their ass” meltdown he had after Houston swept them as his contract was expiring was the most obvious “it’s time for this guy to go” moment for any general manager ever. Every single move he made backfired catastrophically over the previous 2-3 years and set them back a good 5 years. Hal responded by giving him a 5 year contract and he made basically no effort whatsoever to fix a batting order that aside from judge was the worst in baseball. Every other team in North American sports besides the cowboys and heat have replaced their GM since 2009. It’s beyond overdue to see if a new guy can actually develop homegrown talent. Aside from Judge, the last position player to stay beyond his arbitration years who began his career here was Brett Gardner.
It just amazes me how this team not only can’t stay healthy, but loses so many of the most important guys on the team every year.Cheap owner
Incompetent GM
Clueless Manager
Fraudulent, choking ass "captain"
Yeah fukk this shyt
. He also hasn’t found even decent hitting at shortstop since 2018 either.
Days like today I really can’t help but think about how grotesque a failure it’s been by Hal Steinbrenner to not fire Brian Cashman.
The giants won 3 titles in 5 years shortly after showing the door to Barry Bonds.
Houston over the years has lost to injuries or free agency Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, Carlos Correa, Zack Greinke, and George springer to name a few and have made it back to the World Series repeatedly and even won another.
Boston won the World Series not that long after losing Manny Ramirez and then another 2 years after losing David Ortiz.
Los Angeles has lost Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Manny Machado, Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger, and traded away Yordan Alvarez to Houston to name a few people and just keeps making deep runs every year.
Why does Hal not have a red line to find a GM who can build a winner when his guy is still trying to replace Brett Gardner, Mark Texiera, and Alex Rodriguez in the field? Think about that. It’s been patchwork, stopgaps, or just flat out disaster in left field since 2019, first base since 2017, and third base since 2013 and this guy still has a job
It's because Hal Steinbrenner is a bland corporate nepo baby that doesn't have the balls to fire Cashman.Days like today I really can’t help but think about how grotesque a failure it’s been by Hal Steinbrenner to not fire Brian Cashman.
The giants won 3 titles in 5 years shortly after showing the door to Barry Bonds.
Houston over the years has lost to injuries or free agency Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, Carlos Correa, Zack Greinke, and George springer to name a few and have made it back to the World Series repeatedly and even won another.
Boston won the World Series not that long after losing Manny Ramirez and then another 2 years after losing David Ortiz.
Los Angeles has lost Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Manny Machado, Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger, and traded away Yordan Alvarez to Houston to name a few people and just keeps making deep runs every year.
Why does Hal not have a red line to find a GM who can build a winner when his guy is still trying to replace Brett Gardner, Mark Texiera, and Alex Rodriguez in the field? Think about that. It’s been patchwork, stopgaps, or just flat out disaster in left field since 2019, first base since 2017, and third base since 2013 and this guy still has a job
Idiot thinks that he can afford to be asleep at the wheel for a team that plays nearly every other day of the calendar year with a GM who has seen 1 position player he drafted stay beyond his arbitration years since George bush left office
. If that bald clown didn’t stumble into judge this team would be going on over a decade of complete irrelevance far beyond what the 1980’s were like. Borderline islanders levels of irrelevance where the season is basically over before it starts since the ceiling is getting the 7th or 6th seed.
