Chris Kirschner

Some news: I’m moving to NYC this week to cover the New York Yankees for @TheAthleticMLB. This is truly a dream come true. Having grown up as a kid in the Bronx, it’s surreal to say I have this opportunity.

My intro story:

theathletic.com/3438080/2022/0…

Brian Cashman on Aaron Judge needing more DH days moving forward:

"I'm sure he's going to need some DH time. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear that. He's an alpha. He wants to play every day. But he also knows at the same time that — because we've seen him play there, obviously, this past year, you've had DH gone from some point in May on. So obviously we were able to run a lot of different people in there as necessary. But I would think at times we'll see Judge playing DH because it's what's in his best interest, and what's in his best interest is going to be what's in our best interest, if we can just make sure that we can maintain health. He's one of the game's great players. We've got to keep those guys on the field as much as we can to get where we want to go."

Brian Cashman on the narrative that the Yankees are not fundamentally sound and they don't pay attention to smaller details:

“It bothers me, I don’t agree with it. Our coaching staff has been trying to get raided this winter. We lost Tanner to the Seattle Mariners as a bench coach; he was our quality control coach, which is essentially a major league field coordinator, and ran spring training with Brad Ausmus. Ausmus was in the interview process for the GM job with the Astros, now the manager’s job for the Astros. I’ve had a number of guys try to pilfer our pitching guys. I just don’t think it’s representative of the truth, but that’s my opinion. But somebody throws those allegations, I do a deep dive to try to make sure if we are doing something not the same as others, then I’m going to ask about it. We track all of our pregame, and I try to compare that to – if somebody makes an allegation that our pregames run differently than somebody else’s, I try to look at it and say, ‘Is it?” I start asking those questions and start looking at, let’s go to the video tape. Let me try to find it, because I want to hold ourselves accountable and make sure we hold a mirror up to ourselves. If something is not where it needs to be, let’s try to address it.”

Brian Cashman said they will not replace Omar Minaya's or Brian Sabean's roles in the front office.

"I was thankful that ownership allowed me to onboard those guys four years ago. As costs continue to stretch here, I had to make some tough decisions. We're not going to replace, or not going to duplicate those positions, or replace them as we move forward. Unfortunately, there was some give that had to take place. They're really excellent baseball people that I think will add value somewhere if somebody's got an opportunity."

Does Spencer Jones profile as a CF or a corner OF to Brian Cashman?

Cashman: "I would say, based on everything I've seen, I think he's capable of center. He probably profiles better on the corner than center, but he can do center at the same time. So I think he's just capable of a lot despite the size he's at. He gives us versatility for an everyday position guy. That allows Boone to move him here or there. So that's a good thing."