Jon Lester's No-Hitter Leads To The Firing Of Brian Cashman?

by faketeams on May 20, 2008 6:45 AM EDT in Baseball

Jon Lester threw a no-hiter versus the Kansas City Royals last night. The only thing I could think about was how well the Boston Red Sox did by not trading for Johan Santana and how much worse the Yankees look for not doing so. Lester was one of the key pieces demanded by Minnesota as was CF Jacoby Ellsbury.

Lester is now 3-2 with a 3.41 ERA in 66 innings. Jacoby Ellsbury has a .377 OBP with 18 SBs. The Yankees have Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy who have a 8.70 ERA in 50.2 combined innings, Jeff Marquez has a 6.16 ERA in 9 AAA starts and Melky Cabrera has a .317 OBP. Meanwhile, Santana is 5-2 with a 3.30 ERA in 60 innings for the Mets and exactly what the Yankees need.

This certainly makes it appear that the Red Sox front office was a lot smarter than the Yankees front office by holding on to its prospects while the Yankees look foolish for doing the same. Will this be the same burr-in-the-saddle for Hank Steinbrenner that it would have been for his father?

If so, then do not expect GM Brian Cashman to make it through the season. Why let Cashman trade prospects for major league help? Didn't he just demonstrate he could not properly evaluate them when he failed to deal Hughes, Kennedy and Marquez for Santana?

Poll

Does the success of Jon Lester and Jacoby Ellsbury versus Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy, Melky Cabrera and Jeff Marquez make it more likely that Yankees GM Brain Cashman will be fired this season?

Yes. His position was based on projections and it was wrong.

28 votes

No. The season is still too young to make this hindsight judgment

49 votes

77 votes | Poll has closed

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Naturally.

I’d dumped Lester off my team because he’d been thoroughly mediocre before last night. So naturally he goes and pitches a no-hitter.

by JoshNY on May 20, 2008 11:22 AM EDT reply actions

Me, too Almost

I did the same thing with Frank Thomas. Then he hits 2 bombs last night.

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by faketeams on May 20, 2008 11:48 AM EDT reply actions

Yankees too soon.

Two points:

If Hank is, as I suspect he is, like the 1970’s version of his father, then Cashman will be fired and so will Girardi. However, Like last year, winning goes along way to forgiveness. If the Yankees start to win as they did last season after a horrid start Joe and Brian will bide their time. If things continue to go south then you will see something by the end of June.

One last caveat, If the Rays continue to have abetter record then the Yankees, that will go along way to determining Joe’s and Brian fate…...Cant have that!!!!!!

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by Hinz57er on May 20, 2008 5:27 PM EDT reply actions