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Yankees GM Brian Cashman is a free agent at the end of this season.
In a post to Was Watching, Steve Lombradi wonders if Cashman could be of interest to the Mets, in the event Omar Minaya is fired between now and next season.
…i do not think omar will be fired…but, it is interesting, in that he has really received very little criticism, which is odd, since most people are putting a ton of blame on the players…and since he acquired most of these players, it stands to reason that he should get some of the criticism…
Last Friday, in a post to his blog for Daily News, Adam Rubin explained why Minaya deserves a lot of blame, adding that it’s too easy to just scapegoat Willie Randolph.
…i like when rubin gets critical…he writes with a clear-cut, insightful passion that i enjoy…it may be time to make him a columnist, though he does a great job on the beat…
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Ugh. Is this for real?
Cashman has made his fair share of terrible moves, Igawa, Pavano, Brown, Damon
Not to mention, he has the ability to spend more cash than anyone else to cover those mistakes.
$240 Million payroll and a bullpen consisting of Farnsworth, Hawkins, Ohlendorf, Veras, Edwar Ramirez, and the great Mariano. Not a single lefty.
Not to mention, a starting rotation of Mussina (whose 2 yr contract last year, rivals Castillo’s 4 yr), Pettitte, Hughes, Kennedy, and Wang.
No bench.
No thanks. Omar Minaya blows this guy away.
Fire Willie…..please.
From ESPN:
“With few fans remaining at Shea Stadium in the late innings of Monday night’s loss, a chant of “Fire Willie!” could clearly be heard.”
I hate what the Met fans have become. I go to less games because it’s frustrating as a fan to sit there and listen to the entire stadium boo their favorite team, or a 1B who’s at the end of his career, or a relief pitcher who has been big for us for many years and is having a rough season (look at his splits, they need to stop putting him in against lefties). Are they going to boo Nick Evans next because he hasn’t had a hit since his 3 doubles?
The fire Willie chant is obnoxious - sure a lot of us want it, but its ridiculous to chant that at a game. Especially when if we were winning the game, the fans at the stadium would be more than happy. “Fire Isiah” chants made sense, because he needed to be fired and caused sooo many problems.
um….NO. As far as executives go, I don’t think anyone has ever gotten a bigger pass in the history of baseball than Brian Cashman. I loved it when Mad Dog called Cashman out live when he said Cashman was full of it that the Yankees wouldn’t do the Abreu deal if Lidle was included. What a crock.
Id rather pick up Delgado’s option than hire Cashman to be GM
here here!
paul depodesta please.
Did Depodesta make any good moves in LA?
i’d say the brad penny trade, even though he got killed for it
Awful.
Interestingly, in an otherwise characteristically hideous essay by MLB scenester Peter Gammons, (which was essentially a mealy-mouthed, sycophantic political diatribe that didn’t say anything except that Randolph and Delgado are “decent” people) he mentioned a name I have yet to hear as a mangerial candidate: Ozzie Guillen acolyte Joey Cora. In my mind, he would be ideal.
Just read that piece. Atrocious.
you had me until “ozzie guillen acolyte”
Everybody wants passion, intensity, a focus on clutch performance, team unity, and crisp, smart baseball. That’s Ozzie Guillen, minus the profanity and clownish image. Cora would not bring that with him, I don’t think. If Oberkfell isn’t the right choice for whatever reason, Cora could be.
I was going to comment on that myself. It may have been the single worst piece of sports writing I have ever read. Horrendous. ESPN is such an awful organization.
Frank Cashen!!!
Isiah Thomas!
Cashman isn’t the answer. No more Yankees.
Minaya… you know, I liked him before. But what I saw this offseason was a very different Minaya from previous years — a complacent GM who was all too happy with his roster and wasn’t really looking to improve it through anything other than the big splash. (That would be one Mr. Santana.) Where in previous years Minaya was adept at digging diamonds from the rough, this time he just decided that all the old diamonds would suffice just fine — Easley, Anderson, Chavez, etc. Well, no. You find the diamonds, then unless they somehow turn into stars, you find the next diamonds. You don’t stick with the same old guys, anticipating that lightning will strike twice. And you CERTAINLY don’t sign Luis Castillo to a four-year contract.
So I think Minaya deserves as much of a share of the blame as Randolph does.
the world is not always raining with Diamonds in the rough.
And you CERTAINLY do not have problems when Castillo is hitting .270 with a near .370 obp, he was not brought in to be Moises Alou, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado and for that matter at this moment David Wright.
Uh, actually, I do have a problem when my starting 2B on a $140 million team is hitting .259 and slugging .322, in the midst of the worst full season he’s had in his career. Thank god he walks, but it seems like he’s trying to draw a walk every time he’s up with men on base, which is awful.
The world doesn’t have to be raining diamonds in the rough. But they certainly exist. There’s not some one year and none the next year.
Delgado is way over the hill, and you can blame Minaya there too, for going short-term and acquiring him rather than just playing Jacobs or holding off until a younger power-hitting 1B was available.
So Andrew, I am sure you would not have been bashing Minaya had he let say Atlanta go out and acquire Delgado from Florida after the 2005 season while allowing Jacobs to drop his 2006 Marlins line into the Mets books?
Delgado was not way over the hill in 2006 when he was pummelling in the regular season and the playoffs, but things do happen, gambles can often be short lived as such.
Castillo is here to be a table setter not an offensive force.
I absolutely hate Luis Castillo. How many DPs has he hit into this year? How many strikeouts does he have? How many rallies has he killed this year?
I wish we could bat him 10th. Seriously, I would do what Milwaukee does, bat this bum 9th and make the pitcher hit 8th.
In 2006, Delgado put up his worst batting average and OBP since 1997. Yes, he hit 38 homers and drove in 114, but clearly it was a sign of things to come. He was 34. He was not exactly on the good side of his prime.
Please recall that the Mets had in previous years acquired another slugging 1B by the name of Mo Vaughn at approximately the same age coming off a very similar previous season (not the season he missed, but the season before that, obviously). Vaughn’s line in 2002 was very much like Delgado’s last year. Eerily, in fact. Look:
2002 Mo Vaughn (age 34): .259/.349/.456, 26 HR, 72 RBI
2007 Delgado (age 35): .258/.333/.448, 24 HR, 87 RBI
My point is, the Delgado trade was a good short-term deal, but Minaya knew it wouldn’t be a good long-term deal, and was okay with that. Now I go and point that out, and somehow I’m basically getting called a fair-weather fan.
Actually, LongJohn, Castillo has only 14 Ks to go with 22 walks. He prefers to ground out to second base.
I did not call you a fair weather fan but are you denying that the Delgado trade did not work out?
Do you think the Mets would have been better off in 2006 or 2007 or now had the trade not been made?
“He prefers to ground out to second base” - too true. Thanks for the stats man.
Luis Castillo loves grounding out to 2B. The outfield plays 75 ft off of the infield dirt when he bats. We can’t have that. He still can’t hit the ball over their heads. It’s like batting the pitcher twice. Unacceptable.
Castillo’s OBP is better than most seem to think, but his slugging is just awful. </