I want to start this off by apologizing to the Yankees GM
Brian Cashman and the entire Yankees organization. I went on a bit of a rant on
Twitter recently (shameless plug, follow @GreedyStripes) wondering why the
Yankees never seem to look outside the organization for front office help. When
the Los Angeles Dodgers added former Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos to
the organization I was a bit livid. First there were no reports of the Yankees
being interested, until now, and secondly I believe Anthopoulos was the best GM
in baseball and I wanted him on the Yankees. That didn’t happen but that’s not
because the Yankees didn’t try.
New York and Brian Cashman did attempt to sell Anthopoulos on a job much like they have sold the likes of Jim Hendry, Kevin Towers and
almost Omar Minaya in recent seasons before losing out to the Dodgers. The
announcement did not mention specifically what job Anthopoulos was offered by
the Yankees but it wasn’t a sweet enough gig to get him away from his new vice
president of baseball operations job working under Andrew Friedman in Los
Angeles.
Anthopoulos would have been a great mind to have inside the
Yankees organization with a fresh outlook and opinion on the rest of the league
but it just didn’t happen. Remember Anthopoulos was the man that not only
brought David Price, Troy Tulowitzki and Ben Revere to the Blue Jays but also
made trades to acquire Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Jose Reyes, RA Dickey and
Josh Donaldson as well. You win some and you lose some I just hate that the
Yankees lost out on this one.
