knicks94 wrote:Cashman assembled a team with decent talent. But given the payroll, it's a team worth less than $300M. That's before you consider how little the organization cares about basic fundamentals like defense, baserunning, contact hitting over 3-true-outcomes, etc. Not only is the team not living up to the $300M payroll, the whole is worth less than the sum of its parts.
Boone sucks and needed to go years ago, but Cashman likes his puppet. Cashman is the main problem. It shouldn't be that hard to find another GM who can play around with $300M.
And if Hal is not going to fire Cashman because he's too buddy-buddy with him, Hal should sell the team too. This is a business, not a country club.
In a sport with no salary cap and we're top 5 payroll every year, 1 world series in 24 years is unacceptable.
Let's put it this way.
Our starting payroll is about $300M.
With the way we're paying various guys like DJ Lemahieu to literally not be on the team, to guys like Stroman who are not living up to the contract they're being paid, we're blowing away tens of millions of dollars to players who are underachieving or not even on the team right now. The talent on the team right now is worth maybe $200M.
Then, you consider that team is being dragged down due to their lack of discipline, hustle, fundamentals, etc., and the product on the field is comparable to a team with maybe a $150M payroll but who actually cares about those things.
And then, you add in Boone's complete mismanagement of the game, whether it's terrible pitching changes, pinch hitting decisions, etc., and the team overall produces at maybe an effective $100M payroll. That means teams that have a $100M payroll but are actually well run can compete with the Yanks despite the huge payroll deficit, simply beacuse the Yanks are so poorly managed.
If you want to know why teams like the Rays can beat us despite them having no money at all, this is the reason why.
I agree with most of this except for the defense of Hal. We basically have a lot of dead weight because he refuses to spend. Revenues have risen but payroll has stagnated. We implement a lot of "expensive shortcuts" because he has refused to spend. Even when you list Stroman and DJ, we need to remember that those moves were the result of the Yankees not wanting to spend on Yamamoto or Harper/Machado. Sometimes, in FA, dudes come on the market at a really young age and are pretty much good signings...some of them don't even cost draft picks. We regularly turn down those options to try to save money, sign crap stopgaps (or have disastrous trades) and then spend more money to have to hold up for that dead weight. I think it's disgusting that our team is this dependent on Aaron Judge. That's on Hal.
Top 5 payroll is also a failure on the Yankees. We are a top franchise when it comes to revenue. Well, maybe not anymore, since Hal has decide to cede the league to the Dodgers. Hal is a toxic cancer on our franchise. When the owner does not care about winning (and for the longest time, he's tried to leave behind the Yankees' "championship or bust" mentality), then we get the 1/24 statistic you reference.
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