Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, facing for not adding more players to the rotation during the offseason?
Basically it’s like this for a modern day GM in a town that has a long baseball tradition, and millions of followers.
IF the team is doing well, there might be some grudging idea that the GM helped out.
IF the team is about average, .500 record, blame is spread between the manager, coaching staff, GM and owner. ( Noone wants to acknowledge that baseball is streaky, injuries happen, and rival teams have great/ improving records.)
IF they stink, every fan has a different finger out pointing at a different scapegoat.
Most team owners ignore the fans to a large degree. Baseball is streaky. Injuries ha
Because he isn’t doing his job, which is to give the New York Yankees their best possible chance at winning the World Series. He has built a team of righthanded sluggers, designed to reach the close left field walls in Boston and Houston, when his team plays 81 games a year at Yankee Stadium with a close right field fence. The team needs lefthanded power, hitters of either hand who can hit to the opposite field, and competent starting pitching. He refuses to accept this, and has since he broke up the 2009 World Champions, seemingly before the ticker-tape parade even ended.
