Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Boston Herald - Cashman opens up
Steinbrenner also touched up the dynamic between himself and Cashman.
“I always told him, ‘I’m going to make the final decisions because when you’re the owner you should,’” Steinbrenner said. “He is the general manager, and he has the right to talk me out of it and he has talked me out of some things.”
Yesterday, Cashman, in town to support the annual Hot Stove, Cool Music charitable event put on by Red Sox [team stats] general manager Theo Epstein and twin brother Paul’s Foundation to be Named Later, offered insight into how decisions are currently being made within the Yankees organization.
“The dynamics are changing with us,” said Cashman, while serving on a panel discussion that also included Toronto Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi, Red Sox adviser Bill James, agent Scott Boras, Hall of Fame writer Peter Gammons and Theo Epstein. “When I signed up with this current three-year deal, and this is the last year of it, it was with full authority to run the entire program. George (Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ owner) had given me that. But things have changed in this third year now with the emergence of Hal and Hank Steinbrenner and that started this winter.
This isn’t very encouraging news. It’s not that Cashman is some super-great, irreplaceable GM, although I think he’s good, but if it means a return to the days of a megalomaniac of an owner who wants final say on all personnel decisions it’s troubling.
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