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Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog found this 8/21/2008 on www.nydailynews.com [flag]
Brian Cashman. Everybody’s favorite punching bag. Should he stay or should he go? Or more specifically, should the Steinbrenners push him out and bring in a new general manager at the end of the year? Yankees fans everywhere seem to think that Cashman’s departure this fall is a given. Think again. Why would the Steinbrenners get rid of him less than a year after committing to his ... [link]

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Feinsand: Sacking Cashman Makes No Sense
Published 8/21/2008 by Greg Cohen (noreply@blogger.com) at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
From Mark Feinsand: Yankees fans everywhere seem to think that Cashman’s departure this fall is a given. Think again. Why would the Steinbrenners get rid of him less than a year after committing to his plan to build this team from within? What would that accomplish? The minute that ownership agreed to pass on the Johan Santana deal last winter, they should have handed Cashman a new contract. By going along with the plan to develop guys like Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy, the Yankees gave Cashman their vote of confidence. Getting ...

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