Brian Cashman isn’t losing any sleep over the early wave of free-agent signings, and it certainly sounds like the New York Yankees’ general manager may have taken a shot at the players who have already come off the board.
Speaking recently, Cashman downplayed the idea that the market has really started to move in a meaningful way, at least from the Yankees’ point of view. The way he framed it, it sounds like the players New York has actual interest in aren’t the ones signing right now.
“There’s not a lot of inventory that I’m interested in coming off the board yet,” Cashman said, per The New York Post. “So that means it’s tough to get.
“It feels like there’s still a lot of information gathering and information sharing or preliminary negotiations that are taking place, which is the beginning or middle of things, rather than you’re in the red zone and you’re finishing stuff off. It feels like overall, that’s what this market’s feeling like. It’s moving a little slower.”
Cashman is essentially signaling that the Yankees don’t believe the big part of free agency has started yet, and that the big decisions are still ahead.
Cashman has consistently shown a willingness to let the market breathe, perhaps too much, at least according to most Yankees fans.
We’ll see what he does, but it has been a slow start for New York.
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