It is the day many Yankees fans have been waiting for, July
31, 2015. The day that the non-waiver trading deadline comes and goes and we as
a fan base either praise Yankees GM Brian Cashman or call for his head. With
Cashman’s checklist dwindling down to nothing after missing out on Johnny
Cueto, Cole Hamels, David Price and others already off the board and Michael
Pineda and Ivan Nova both possibly hurting the screams for Cashman’s head are
growing louder and louder. Are they justified? See for yourself:
§ February
6, 1998 traded Cristian Guzman, Eric
Milton, Brian Buchanan and Danny
Mota to the Minnesota Twins for Chuck Knoblauch
§ February
1, 1999 traded Mike
Lowell to the Florida Marlins for Ed
Yarnall, Todd Noeland Mark J. Johnson
§ February
18, 1999 traded Homer
Bush, David Wells and Graeme Lloyd to the Toronto Blue Jays for Roger Clemens
§ December
22, 1999 traded Hideki Irabu to the Montreal Expos for Ted
Lilly, Jake Westbrook and Christian Parker
§ June
29, 2000 traded Ricky
Ledee, Jake Westbrook and Zach
Day to the Cleveland Indians for David Justice
§ July
12, 2000 traded Ed
Yarnall, Drew
Henson, Jackson Melian and Brian
Reith to the Cincinnati Reds for Denny Neagle and Mike
Frank
§ July 5, 2002 in
a 3 team trade sent Ted
Lilly, Jason Arnold and John-Ford Griffin to the Oakland Athletics for Jeff
Weaver from the Detroit Tigers
§ July
16, 2003 traded Jason Anderson, Ryan Bicondoa and Anderson Garcia to the New York Mets for Armando Benitez
§ July
29, 2003 traded Raul Mondesi to the Arizona Diamondbacks for David Dellucci, Bret
Prinz and Jon-Mark Sprowl
§ December
13, 2003 traded Jeff
Weaver, Yhency Brazoban and Brandon Weeden to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Kevin
Brown
§ December
16, 2003 traded Nick Johnson, Juan
Rivera and Randy Choate to the Montreal Expos for Javier Vazquez
§ February
16, 2004 traded Alfonso Soriano and Joaquin Arias to the Texas Rangers for Alex Rodriguez
§ January
11, 2005 traded Javier Vazquez, Brad
Halsey and Dioner Navarro to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Randy Johnson
§ July
30, 2006 traded Matt
Smith, C.J. Henry, Jesus Sanchez and Carlos Monasterios to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bobby
Abreu
§ January
9, 2007 traded Randy Johnson to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Luis Vizcaino, Steven Jackson, Ross Ohlendorf and Alberto Gonzalez
§ November
10, 2007 traded Gary Sheffield to the Detroit Tigers for Humberto Sanchez, Anthony Claggett and Kevin Whelan
§ July
26, 2008 traded Jeff Karstens, Daniel McCutchen, Ross Ohlendorf and Jose
Tabata to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Damaso Marte and Xavier
Nady
§ November
13, 2008 traded Wilson Betemit, Jeff Marquez and Jhonny Nunez to the Chicago White Sox for Nick Swisher and Kanekoa Texeira
§ December
8, 2009 traded Phil
Coke, Austin Jackson and Ian
Kennedy to the Detroit Tigers for Curtis Granderson
§ December
22, 2009 traded Melky Cabrera, Mike
Dunn and Arodys Vizcaino to the Atlanta Braves for Boone
Logan and Javier Vazquez
§ January
23, 2012 traded Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi to the Seattle Mariners for Jose Campos and Michael Pineda
§ February
19, 2012 traded A.J. Burnett to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Exicardo Cayones and Diego Moreno
§ March
26, 2013 traded Exicardo Cayones and Kramer Sneed to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for Vernon Wells
§ July
22, 2014 traded Rafael De Paula and Yangervis Solarte to the San Diego Padres for Chase Headley
§ December
19, 2014 traded Martin Prado and David Phelps to Miami Marlins for Nate Eovaldi, Domingo German and Garrett Jones
Oh and Cashman acquired Dustin Ackley from the Seattle Mariners yesterday, not exactly notable though.
As you can see with any GM who has been with the team since
the 1998 season you will have some trades you won and some trades that you
lost. Some are significant losses and some are significant wins but overall I
don’t think Cashman has been terrible. When you consider what Cashman worked
under and who Cashman worked under for most of those seasons you could
understand a few knee jerk reactions and such and overall he’s been okay. I’m
not anointing him GM of the Century by any means and I’m not exactly planning a
Brian Cashman Day in Monument Park but I’m not punching the guy in the face if
I see him out on the street either…..
Excellent article Burch I enjoyed it
ReplyDeleteTotally not the response i expected to get out of you with this post, lol. Thanks Hans
ReplyDeleteStill hate Cahman and Hal. I'm not naive to think Hal didn't agree to take money on as well. Both are a detriment to the yanks. I'm just not a person that believes Cashman is good. So Toronto gave up all A prospects for there three major trades? I don't think so. The Yanks have four decent prospects and guys on here think the farm is top flight. Sorry boys it's better but still not top flight. When and if there is a collapse who pats the price? It's got to be the elf for standing pat...oh wait he picked up. 216 hitting utility player to possibly replace a 170 player. Great move elf
ReplyDeleteKen from your point of thinking you are right for hating Cashman, but he can only do what they let him do...follow the money. It is much cheaper to bring up the kids than pay an ACE $25+/-mil. a year! Hal could care less about winning, or I should say he would like to win but not hurt the bottom line. I honestly think he thinks they can be winners in a year or two without going for the high-end players.
ReplyDeleteSo we have gone a few years without making the playoffs...I have seen it much worse than that and I have seen it much better than the five WS wins you guys have seen.
The only way to get back to the 8 WS wins out of 10 is to bring up the kids and let them play and build around them as we get out of those big wasted contracts we have dragging us down. Unless we have an owner that will DFA players (with contracts) and replace them with better and younger players we have to go this way.
Don't forget all those International Players we signed. There are a few good ones in that bunch, guys that are going to have an impact on our farm system for next year or maybe longer.
I hope I am not being too optimistic but then again that seems to be the only thing we have going isn't it?