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Best Winter Meetings Quote


By Mike Silva ~ December 9th, 2011. Filed under: New York Yankees.

The big news of the Dallas Winter Meetings was the spending spree by Miami and Anaheim, but the best quote came from Brian Cashman- at least in my opinion.

Check this blurb out via Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch:

You’ve almost certainly noticed how much quieter the Yankees figure to be during these Winter Meetings. Brian Cashman says it isn’t for a lack of trying; he just seems to be having conversations with other general managers that are hitting dead ends. But why?

“I don’t know,” he said. “I think everybody values prospects a lot more now, while at the same time trying to retain maximum value on players toward the back end of their contracts. It’s just hard to find matches. Money is a real issue for everybody; everybody has various different budgets, some higher than lower. It’s just hard to find a match – and it feels like it’s harder now than ever. You don’t see those old-school 7- to 11-player deals.

“You don’t see stuff like that anymore. I think people are smarter, also; it’s not a complaint, but a lot of people are a lot smarter and therefore more careful. This isn’t the old seat-of-the-pants, get drunk in the lobby and write names on the napkin. People don’t conduct business that way any more. They just don’t.”

So all it will take to get John Danks, Gio Gonzalez, or Matt Garza is a little Johnny Walker Blue on the rocks?

Cashman has fast become the best quote in baseball out of all 30 general managers.

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3 Responses to Best Winter Meetings Quote

  1. Retta
    December 9th, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    as far as i am concerned….brian cashman will bring down the yankees again in 2012 just as he did in 2011.he is a procrastinator.

  2. Russ Cress
    December 9th, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Retta, that comment is ridiculous. The Yankees didn’t lose because they didn’t make any moves. The Yankees lost because CC Sabathia ran out of gas against Detroit, period. Cashman was brilliant last year bringing in 5 guys off the scrap heap (that any team could have had) who became big time contributors to a pennant winning team while working in reinforcements from the farm seamlessly that allowed them to overcome injuries. Cashman is the major reason they won 97 games and the AL East and far from a problem. You are WAY off base here.

    It’s not all about signing free agents. Part of the job is building an organization and Cahman and his boys Oppenheimer, Newman & Eppler have done a fantastic job building this farm system which is why the Yankees aren’t desperate to make moves right now like other teams are.

  3. Russ Cress
    December 9th, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    As far as Cashman’s quote goes, there is a downside there.

    Those trades made at the bar and such, historically have been more interesting, more fun to discuss and make for better baseball stories than the deals made today. Who doesn’t love the Joe D/Ted Williams trade story that was made on a cocktail napkin and ripped up after sleeping it off and sobering up in the morning? Or the one where the father & sons Smiths made that mammoth trade of like 12 guys after Thanksgiving dinner? Or the story of the Orioles closing in on a deal with David Cone only to have George Steinbrenner hear it on the radio, pull over the car and call Cone from a payphone and agree to terms with him right there on the side of the road.

    There are a million tremendous baseball stories that come from “the bar’ and other unconventional by today’s standards over the years and I wish there were more of those today and a few less laptop driven deals today just for the fun of it. Otherwise, where are the future great baseball stories going to come from?

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