Depending on where you’re living across the country either
winter seems to be in full effect or you’re still wearing your summer shorts.
Fortunately for me, now an Atlanta residence myself, I am experiencing the
latter but one thing is for certain in the Brian Cashman household, the Hot
Stove is turned all the way up. Cashman is said to be one of the most
aggressive GM’s working the phones and taking calls on essentially anyone and
everyone on his team and Cashman, for the first time in I can’t really say for
sure how long, is giving at least some of those frustrated Yankees fans a
little bit of hope before the 2016 season.
Cashman especially gave some Yankees fans some hope, even if
it’s just a false hope at this point, when he stated that no Yankees pitcher
had their job etched in stone for 2016. That means Masahiro Tanaka (although
his name is as closed to etched in stone as possible), Michael Pineda, Nathan
Eovaldi, Ivan Nova, Luis Severino and yes even CC Sabathia may actually have to
earn their spot on the team next season rather than have their contract or
veteran presence dictate the roster manipulation. That alone would be a sight
for sore eyes. I am a firm believer in the fact that the best 25 men should
leave Tampa, Florida at the end of Spring Training camp and head north to the
Bronx to play host to the Houston Astros on Opening Day 2016 and it seems, at
least he’s saying the right things anyway, that Brian Cashman finally agrees
with that.
I am a fan of CC Sabathia and I love it when he does well.
Not only for the team but for his own piece of mind and mindset. I cannot
pretend to sit here and know what it feels like to once be great at what you do
and then fall off for three consecutive seasons due to diminished velocity and
command. I’ve cheered for CC with every “comeback” start he made either off the
DL or after a bad start and I’ve openly supported him not only for his on the
field performance but for the fact that he is the first out of the dugout to
protect his teammates and sources and reports all over the web tell you what
kind of clubhouse presence he is, he’s a Yankee in every facet of the term. The
fact of the matter is the Yankees have six or seven starters on their roster
and CC may not be one of the better five at this point in his career. That’s
tough to take, hell it’s tough for me to say, but the truth is the truth
unfortunately.
If CC can earn his way on, or any of the Yankees starters
for that matter, then more power to them and I will welcome them to the team
with open arms. It’s just personal to me to see this team, my team, simply wait
out contracts in lieu of winning when before the team would eat or move those
contracts by any means necessary in order to win. We’re the Greedy Pinstripes
and sometimes that line is tough to walk, but we’ll walk it. Especially if the
front office gets the mindset back that the best 25 players go north and the
performance, not the contract, dictates the roster.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)