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What is the obsession with Stephen Drew? Cashman answers

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Yankees GM Brian Cashman went on the Michael Kay show this afternoon to talk about the state of the team. As of this article Stephen Drew is hitting .160 with a .231 OBP and .301 slugging. Kay puts it bluntly and asks, “what is the obsession with Stephen Drew?” Listen to his answer.

“What is the obsession with Stephen Drew?” asks Michael Kay.Brian Cashman answers:

Posted by YES Network on Tuesday, June 2, 2015

What I hear in his response is, I don’t want to be second guessed and don’t want to look wrong. He continues to say that Rob Refsnyder isn’t ready for the Majors when Stephen Drew shouldn’t even be in the Majors! If the Yanks could win three World Series with Chuck Knoblauch at second then Refsnyder can’t possibly do anything to hurt this team. I hear a whole lot of NOTHING in his answer. Just blabbering.

The Yankees dropped Alfonso Soriano after 67 games last year because he was hitting .221 with 6 homers and not contributing. Drew is at 47 games hitting .160 with 5 homers!!! How is he still here?? He says, “you can’t wave a magic wand and something else can appear.” Abracadabra Jose Pirela. He can play second easily. Remember Martin Prado? The super utility guy you traded to Miami who is hitting .284 with 21 RBIs? Ya he can play second too. So don’t give me the there isn’t anything out there cop out. The reason we’re stuck with Drew is because of your idiotic “managing.” Remember 2005 when we had a young second baseman in the Minors named Robinson Cano but you chose to sign Tony Womack instead? I do. Same Cash, different crappy player.

There is no defending Drew anymore. Don’t tell me it’s early in the season. It isn’t April. It’s June. The division is getting tighter and tighter. Drew has had over 300 at bats in his Yankee career and is doing absolutely nothing. Are there other holes the team needs to address? Absolutely. But Stephen Drew is the biggest hole sinking this ship.

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5 Comments

  1. no better option right now unless the team makes a trade.

    of course, I favor obtaining a middle infielder from the Rockies, but that probably wont happen

  2. Why the continued hating of Chuck Knoblauch? He was a fine second baseman except for 1999 where he made 20+ errors. He won rookie of the year, silver slugger, even a gold glove. He was a complete package – good offense and good defense. Career line of .289/.378/.406 — that’s pretty good – also 400+ steals.

  3. This article shows no depth of thought. The Cano comment? They needed a holdover. When they signed Womack, Cano was 20 and had just hit .277/.322/.374 between A+ and AA. Had they Yankees pushed Cano so early when he was performing so underwhelmingly, they’d jeopardize his confidence.

    As far as Drew goes, Cashman and his front office can’t just wave a magic wand and come up with something better. Drew won a World Series with the Red Sox in 2013 and posted a 3 rWAR. His fielding at second base has been above-average with the Yankees. His hitting has been bad, but since he had a $5 million contract, there was obviously a reason to give him until June to see if he could figure it out.

    The Yankees are on a budget. Second base is one of the scarcest, and most expensive positions on the field. They have very few options available to them that doesn’t require them to sacrifice their top 2-3 prospects and tens of millions in future profit (from exploiting those cheap young players like they did Cano for instance). Jose Pirela? Sure, give him a shot. But Cashman wasn’t being a bad GM for not panicking and going out and overspending on some other broken veteran.

  4. By the way, to all of the Cashman detractors, how is the decision to stay conservative on the Cano contract looking now? Pretty good I’d say. How’s the decision to trade your top prospect, Jesus Montero, for injury-prone Michael Pineda looking? Or signing Andrew Miller, or Brian McCann? You can’t win ’em all. But he’s done a nice job. Being the Yankees GM, where expectations are so high and you’re managing a franchise that is so different than the others in the MLB is no easy gig.

  5. It’s no Girardis fault that Cadhman has stuck the team with the likes of Carpenter,Rogers,Drew,Ryan, Didi,Beltran and Evoldi. These are Cadhman moves. We had Phelps, Green and Prado. We were in good shape. Needed a SS. I would have applauded a trade for Tulo from the Rockies. Sent Green, Phelps and one of our young outfielders and got him. What a different team we would be. I can’t believe that Cashman thinks we can win with Drew, Didi and Ryan?night after night they just don’t contribute and actually cost us games. Cashman can’t see that? He needs to go.

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