With the New York Yankees clinging to their playoff hopes, their general manager's job appears to be safe regardless of the outcome of the season as Brian Cashman reportedly "isn't in any danger" of losing his job.
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ESPN reports that a source close to the Yankees thinking said that Cashman's job is safe no matter how the team's pursuit for the final wild-card spot in the American League goes, though the decision won't be made official until after the season.
"I don't see Cashman as being in any trouble at all,'' the source told ESPN. "But as far as I know, [Cashman's situation] has not been discussed yet. Those things normally are not addressed until after the season.''
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Cashman is in his 17th season as the Yankees general manager, but with his three-year $9 million pact set to run out at the end of the campaign, there have been rumors that he may not be brought back if the Bronx Bombers fail to make the playoffs for the second straight season for the first time in 20 years.
Hal Steinbrenner didn't exactly assure reporters that Cashman would be back last month when speaking in Baltimore during the meeting to select Bud Selig's successor as MLB commissioner.
"We're so busy right now trying to figure out who's going to be playing in any given game, much less that,'' Steinbrenner said. "We'll be talking about that soon enough. But you know me. We've got enough things to worry about during the season. That's where our focus needs to be. Let me get to October -- hopefully the end of October, beginning of November -- and we'll go from there."
Cashman tried to combat the Yankees problems from 2013 by having a busy offseason, landing pitcher Masahiro Tanaka out of Japan, and catcher Brian McCann and outfielders Carlos Beltran and Jacoby Ellsbury out of free agency.
Tanaka lived up to and may have surpassed expectations by pitching to a 12-4 record with a 2.51 record until being sidelined with a slight tear in his elbow while Ellsbury also had a productive season, hitting .283 and leading the team with 65 RBI up to this point.
Beltran and McCann have not panned out quite as well as Beltran is hitting just .239/.304/.415 while McCann owns a subpar.242/.293/.401 slash line this season.
With four-fifths of his rotation sidelined and his offense struggling, Cashman acquired pitcher Brandon McCarthy and infielders Chase Headley and Martin Prado in order to try and keep the Yankees afloat at the trade deadline.
Despite all of their flaws, the Yankees enter Friday with a 72-66 record and are four games behind the Detroit Tigers (77-63) for the final wild-card spot with the Seattle Mariners (76-63) also in front of them.
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