...this oughtta seal it for you. Cashman is a complete joke as a GM...and the sad thing is, I think he really believes this BS he's trying to sell; ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Despite CC Sabathia's continuing struggles this season, New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said there is no chance the 34-year-old former Cy Young Award winner will be removed from the team's starting rotation. "That's not something that we're considering at this moment," Cashman told ESPNNewYork.com on Tuesday. "We're going to continue to give him every opportunity to work through this for the foreseeable future." CC Sabathia has struggled throughout 2015, compiling a 3-8 record with a 5.59 ERA through 16 starts. Noah K. Murray/USA TODAY Sports Sabathia took the defeat in Monday night's 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels to run his 2015 record to 3-8. His ERA is 5.59, the highest of all but four other starting pitchers in Major League Baseball. Sabathia's 1.400 WHIP, a measurement of hits and walks per inning pitched, places him 83rd among 99 starting pitchers. And the 19 home runs he has allowed in his 15 starts are tops in the American League and second in MLB only to Kyle Kendrick of the Colorado Rockies, who has allowed 23. "The home runs are a big issue," Cashman said. "That's something that's new for him, in the last couple of years. If they're solo shots, they're not as painful." Sabathia allowed two solo home runs Monday night, to Mike Trout and C.J. Cron, and has allowed nine home runs in his past five starts. In 2013, Sabathia allowed a career-high 28 home runs. Cashman acknowledged Tuesday that Sabathia is "approaching that number quick." Sabathia, who will turn 35 on July 21, is also on pace to lose more games than he ever has in any one season of his 15-year big league career; he went 14-13 in 2013. Last season Sabathia experienced his first sub-.500 season, going 3-4 in a year shortened by a knee injury that required surgery. Sabathia has won just one game in the past six weeks, a 6-2 victory over the Angels at Yankee Stadium on June 7. In between, he has taken three no decisions and the loss Monday night, allowing 27 hits and 17 earned runs in 23 innings. "I just battled," Sabathia said after Monday night's game, in which he worked 7 1/3 innings, his longest outing since April 20. "I made some good pitches. I made some bad pitches. It's just part of it. But I'm battling, and I feel like I'm getting better." "He's still competing and finding himself," Cashman said. "I think early on he had not the best of luck or run support." Asked whether he expected Sabathia -- who has another year, at $25 million, plus a vesting option for 2017 at an additional $25 million left on his contract -- to ever be an effective starting pitcher for the Yankees again, Cashman said, "That is our expectation and our hope." Instead, as announced Monday night, it will be right-hander Adam Warren who will be removed from the Yankees' rotation, even though he has been the most reliable member of the starting staff for the past month. Cashman said that was a decision based more on limiting Warren's workload than on his performance. Warren, who had never worked more than 78 2/3 innings in either of his previous two big league seasons, was up to 82 1/3 innings this year through 14 starts. "We have to manage his innings," Cashman said. "He's pitched great, but we're giving him a timeout. It doesn't mean he's out of the rotation for good. We're giving him a breather, and if somebody gets hurt, he automatically goes back in."
Two things jump out at me in that speech... #1 "We're going to give him every opportunity to work through this" WHAT? that's what you have been doing & the season is now half over with no improvement in sight. So yeah asshole, let him work through it at the expense of the team & if the Yankees miss the playoffs by a game or two at least you could feel good that you let him work through it. MORON. #2 "He's still competing and finding himself" FINDING HIMSELF? what the hell does that even mean? And he's still competing, WONDERFUL, so is Stephen Drew & he still sucks. And as far as his statements on Warren, what a f'king cop out.
If Sabathia manned up, went to management saying I'm not helping this team in my current state I'd respect that. Instead Cashman covers up his tracks with all the BS printed in that article. That stuff not only makes Cashman look like an idiot but makes the Steins and their franchise the laughing stock of baseball.
And when exactly does Girardi step up and say this is bullshit, CC sucks and should be in the bullpen and why am I losing my best starter this year because of this fat unproductive shit. The money didn't matter before the season with a-rod and shouldn't with CC. And yeah, it would be nice if the fat shit took some responsibility and took himself out of the lineup. Making tens of millions and pitching like a bag of pennies. Can't wait to see cashman trade for another veteran starter giving up young assets instead of bringing up the young stud called SEVERING who is torching triple A and has been for awhile. And we are stuck with the rotting carcus called CC for another 2 years yet I think.
Well, consider this.........you a-hole, . Your blind, stubborn support(?) may get you a 20 game loser!
Business 101, invest millions in a player , player plays, its that simple! blaming cashman , bringing up cashman , anything said by cashman, the reactions to it on here means you know NOTHING about how big business works... cashman, laughs all the way to the bank!
get rid of the "blind hatred" you have for me, open your mind, and get where i am coming from... IMO, CC should go on the DL with some BS injury like he has done for the last 3 years and let someone else do the job!
When you come into a discussion and tell people they don't know anything you're not exactly endearing yourself to everyone.
this is NOT a popularity contest for me mess, i come on here to read what is written, and post an opinion of a player or coach, 2 of the most important facets of the game, thats where it ends for me, and why don't we just stick to that!
