Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
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the courtship of a dejected superstar is one of the hardest dances in sports done, right? It's a whisper quiet. Three step waltz among the G. M. The player and his agent quote. I'll give you an example and quote says Cashman a disciplined card sharp whose default face is a neutral stare quote last winter when I was dealing with brian McCann, I called his agent. BB Abbott to set the stage end, quote McCann a slugging catcher with a no trade clause in his five year $85 million dollar deal have been ousted from his spot by Gary Sanchez, the first of the baby bombers to arrive quote. I told Abbott to tell Mac there's a place on this team for you. You can be the backup and we'll have the D. H. Open. So if you're cool with that then we're good. But if you want me to talk trades, I'm not gonna disrespect you. You've earned the right to go where you like. So let me know what you want. End, quote Abbott talked to his agent and got back to Cashman fast quote, he said, we appreciate you handling it this way cash but hey on the down low max not going anywhere West end quote the Seattle Mariners were interested but Cashman knew not to engage them. The braves and Astros were the only teens for whom McCann would waive his no trade ever so softly. Catherine struck a deal with Houston the can and most of his salary for two green but electric starters pitching at the single A level. Both sides came up winners in the exchange, McCann earned a world series ring in Houston and Cashman moved most of his salary and used one of those kid pictures in the trade he'd make for Stanton, his master stroke. No one in the new york media got wind of the trade until it was almost done, quote. The last thing you want is Mac to hear from the papers, the Yankees are shopping, you end quote says Cashman, then the quote writers call and commentate on the deal and suddenly you've got choppy waters end quote instead, McCann left quote, throwing bouquets are way end quote, glad for the chance to have been a yankee. Cashman sitting at a gallery, A lunch spot that passes for pan asian in Tampa is a short pale fellow with surprisingly broad shoulders and a thrumming disinterest. In small talk there is in the fix city of his Gaijin jawline, the set of a man taken lightly for too long. He's one of those people who came to power fairly on the strength of his smarts and sweat equity to be sure he used a family connection to land an internship with the yanks while in college, but from the moment he got his foot in the door, there was no stopping Cashman on the come up. He was a baseball gym rat in college too small to play for a primetime program. He started all four years at catholic university as its leadoff hitter and second baseman. He broke the school's record for hits in a season and batted 3 48 his junior year. Not bad for a guy who stood 57 and swung at every first strike quote. The first pitch of the game was almost always a fastball. That's why my average was so high. He says I took advantage of what I knew was coming end quote perhaps because he speaks in a colorless burr and like the back of the press room, not the front. He's been long viewed as a kind of permanent temp, a substitute teacher who stuck around for years, New york mistook him for an errand boy. The sad eyed apparatchik catching **** from George Steinbrenner. After meaningless loss in april, he was paid less money than most of his peers as smart trade, sabotaged by the boss and appeared to survive where his forebearers hadn't because he didn't punch back when abused. The last part was false but he never troubled to correct it. Quote. He and George would have screen festivals for hours and quote, says jean afternoon. The assistant general manager of the Yankees whose office at the new stadium is next to Cashman's quote, I close my door but could hear them down the hall brian backs down from no one. That's why George loved him. End quote Cashman like the three or 4 Masters of his craft Is one part diplomat to two parts pickpocket. He can politely boost your watch and wallet and leave you thinking the heist was your idea? Jeter style, by contrast, is to dictate terms and expect you to glumly accept them. His first act after buying the marlins was to pointlessly freeze out Stanton. He didn't book the obligatory get to know you dinner with his star at a stuffy rooftop steakhouse in Miami. He declined to call Stanton and offer congratulations when he was named the league's most Valuable player and he never phoned Wolf one of the powerhouse reps in baseball to ask about his client's choice of destinations. Quote I was ready for the worst, which it was quote Stanton confided looming at his locker and a pair of gold spikes after workout in spring training in 2018. Like Judge stan is one of those physical freaks you can't properly appreciate on T. V. It isn't only his mass or stone cut proportions, but the taper of chest and back to a tiny waist. There's a quality about him that you sometimes find in art, grace and violence merged in random gestures quote. If that's how you want to treat someone, then there's no playing nice, he said of Jeter. I had had more than enough end quote.