Yankees general manager Brian Cashman calls 2023 season ‘a disaster’

Baseball
Published 23.08.2023
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman calls 2023 season ‘a disaster’

NEW YORK — Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman, confronted with the workforce’s worst season in additional than 30 years, admitted “it’s been a disaster” and promised a search to search out out the trigger.

New York entered Wednesday with a nine-game dropping streak and was on the verge of dropping 10 in a row for the primary time in 110 years.

“It’s definitely a shock,” Cashman stated earlier than the Yankees performed Washington. “We’re embarrassed by it.”

New York (60-65) had misplaced 9 straight video games for the primary time since Sept. 13-21, 1982, hitting .176 through the slide with 21 runs. Another defeat would give the Yankees their first 10-game skid since May 21 to June 6, 1913, in line with the Elias Sports Bureau.

Cashman stated all choices can be examined in taking a look at accidents, analysis and underperformance. He stated these evaluations would come with the standing of himself and Boone.

“There’s definitely going to be a lot of internal assessments going on,” he stated.

The Yankees started the evening 10 1/2 video games again for the AL’s third and last wild card, additionally trailing Toronto, Boston and the Los Angeles Angels.

“You have to be a realist with how far we’re back now from the wild card, who we’re chasing,” injured first baseman Anthony Rizzo stated. “We’re certainly not out of it, but we have a very, very long shot from being in it.”

The Yankees had been 24-40 since peaking at 36-25 on June 4. During that stretch, they had been final within the majors with a .220 batting common and 237 runs — 10 fewer than lowly Oakland.

“It’s all-consuming. That said, you always try to have a level of perspective that I certainly do in my life,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “School’s getting ready to start, a couple going off to college and trying to be as present as you can be there, too. So you do try and separate, and I think I’m decent at it.”

Boone has mentioned the slide with proprietor Hal Steinbrenner.

“He’s certainly frustrated, obviously, as we all are,” Boone stated. “But I think we’re all in this together and share that kind of same feeling. So I don’t think he’s necessarily pointedly angry at me in these meetings.”

NOTES: Rizzo, sidelined by a concussion, took on-field batting follow and thinks he’ll return this season. “I don’t think it’s a certainty or it’ll all be predicated on if he’s good to go,” Boone stated.