Post#915 » by knicks94 » Today 6:40 am
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 needs 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.
