“The story that is always told about the [New York] Yankees is wrong,” longtime general manager Brian Cashman has said multiple times, according to SNY’s Andy Martino.
In a stroke of baseball genius, Martino defines it in a new book from Doubleday, The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era. So perfectly, in fact, that I must admit: I was wrong to rant last summer. And while we’re at it, maybe we need to lay off of Cashman too.
As we learn in the book, the Yankee Way of prioritizing on-base percentage and their own utilization of the five-tool scale isn’t so much about the process itself, but the man behind it.