David Lennon
David Lennon is an award-winning columnist and author who has been a staff writer at Newsday since 1991.
To gauge just how much has changed in New York baseball since the last time we packed up for spring training, all you had to do was listen to Brian Cashman and Sandy Alderson this winter.
Cashman, with his Yankees having failed to win a playoff game since 2012, frequently talked about the team’s payroll tightening in steering clear of the free-agent market. That sentiment also was echoed by Hal Steinbrenner, who repeated his oft-stated belief of the Yankees’ not needing to spend $200 million to win a World Series.