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Tuesday 7 November 2017
Yankees’ Cashman was concerned with Girardi’s ‘connectivity’

By RONALD BLUM I felt we had new op- Series.
AP Baseball Writer portunities to re-engage “Is there a shelf life to
NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees and reconnect and have somebody’s abilities in one
general manager Brian channels maybe open a particular market or not?
Cashman decided it “was little bit easier,” Cashman I guess that might be the
time for a new voice and a said. “When I saw that question that’s really more
fresh voice” in New York’s that wasn’t happening to on the table than anything
clubhouse after conclud- the level of I think that was else,” Cashman said.
ing Joe Girardi was not the necessary as we move for- Cashman would not say
right manager for a team ward, that’s when the rec- whether a pennant or
that has reoriented toward ommendation came by World Series win this year
youth. myself to Hal Steinbrenner.” would have changed the
New York announced Oct. A catcher with the Yan- decision.
26 that Girardi would not kees from 1996-99 who won “It’s a tough to put a hypo-
be offered a new con- In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, New York Yankees manager Joe three titles, Girardi man- thetical in there,” he said.q
tract, ending a 10-year run Girardi, left, and general manager Joe Girardi chat on the field aged the Florida Marlins
that ended when the Yan- before the team’s American League wild-card playoff baseball in 2006. He replaced Joe
kees lost Game 7 of the game against the Minnesota Twins, in New York. Torre as Yankees manager
AL Championship Series have a timetable for a de- experiences that I was able before the 2008 season
to Houston, the eventual cision on a replacement to validate, whether it’s di- and went 910-710, lead-
World Series champion. and plans to interview can- rectly or indirectly about ing New York to the 2009
“The issue and the con- didates from both inside the connectivity and the World Series title and three
cerns were,” Cashman and outside the organiza- communication level with first-place finishes in the AL
said, “ability to fully en- tion. the players in that club- East.
gage, communicate, con- Cashman said he informed house,” Cashman said Girardi was at the end of
nect with the playing per- owner Hal Steinbrenner Monday in his first com- his four-year contract. The
sonnel. And in saying that of his Girardi analysis on ments about the decision. retooled Yankees went 91-
there might be a tough Oct. 23, two days after New York began its transi- 71 this season, their best re-
hurdle for someone that’s New York’s season ended. tion in August 2016 when cord since 2012, defeated
been in that particular po- Cashman met Girardi the it released Alex Rodriguez Minnesota in the AL wild-
sition as a manager for 10 next day. and traded several veter- card game and overcame
years.” “I made that recommen- ans for prospects. 2-0 deficit to beat Cleve-
The GM said he doesn’t dation based on ... some “Once that cleared out, land in a five-game Division