Billy Beane has never won anything, so probably the same.
That's ridiculous and you know it.
Beane has made chicken salad out of a dugout full of literal excrement. His team has had no money and played in arguably the worst stadium in sports, and they've still managed to contend. You're being completely disingenuous if you say he couldn't do great things with the same resources Cashman has.
Also Stanton costs the Yankees $22M per year, so no. Another case of poor spending by Cashman as I’m sure you have many posts on here complaining about dumping his salary
Stanton's salary was $29M this year, so yeah.
Beyond that, he's disappointed at times but was far better playing LF than full-time DHing, so chalk that up to overcaution being worse.
The only bad contracts are:
Hicks: 4 years $40M
end of Stanton’s contact at age 37 which doesn’t affect us at all right now
You can second guess the Hicks contract due to health concerns but you can’t argue it was an overpay
If you think DJLM will continue to hit like he did this season and want to throw his contract on there go ahead, but $15M/year isn’t a backbreaker. And we all agreed it was a bargain after his first 2 seasons here.
Where are the other bad contracts/poor spending?
My argument isn't "poor spending", at least not in terms of paying guys who don't perform to their deals. When you're paying multiple top-end salaries, you're bound to have a bomb or two.
It's where he doesn't spend that drives me nuts. Every year, he searches for bargain bin discounts, as if he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. He let Tanaka go back to Japan and instead took fliers on Kluber and Taillon while waiting for Severino to get back. He also came in with a ridiculously right-handed lineup playing half their games in Yankee Stadium. And FFS, he loves his injury-red-flag players.
Since the Subway Series, Cashman rosters have won a single World Series with 3 different managers. At what point does he finally get some blame? I hear the "GMs like him don't just shake out of trees" but how does anyone know? Yet again, he has had a top-3 payroll every year. I can spend money like water too.
What makes Cashman special?
