Moderator: nykgeneralmanager
"Within the industry there is a sense there will be a scapegoat or two for that, and that it will not be Girardi or GM Brian Cashman, who has a year left on his pact. Instead, two longtime organizational employees are perceived as most in peril: Damon Oppenheimer, who is in charge of the draft, and Mark Newman, who is in charge of development," writes Joel Sherman.
moocow007 wrote:Just clean house (fire everyone) and bring in a new crew. Thad Levine or AJ Preller of the Rangers. Dave Dombrowski of the Tigers (if he doesn't take the commissioners job). John Copolella of the Braves. Michael Chernoff of the Indians. What's Billy Beane doing?
At least they got rid of that big fat waste of a paycheck in Billy Connors (VP of Player Personnel and the so-called organization pitching "guru") before this past season. Talk about useless. In fact under his watch there's been absolutely diddly squat in terms of pitchers or players being developed and, in fact, just about every pitching prospect they've had has been injury prone or just stagnated.
Pharmcat wrote:somebody want to tell me what randy levine does? other than leaking stuff to the press?
moocow007 wrote:My guess is that maybe the Yankees minor league clubs and the Knicks share the same training staff?
moocow007 wrote:Maybe the Yanks can get a chance to draft either Ti'Quan Forbes (SS-3B), Nick Gordon (SS-RHP) or Michael Gettys (OF)...high end projectable players with tools and skills.
