Hal Steinbrenner, tell your GM Brian Cashman to stop whining about 2017 Astros stealing signs.

Geez, enough already. Yankee General Manager (GM) Brian Cashman is still using the Houston Astros sign stealing at home in 2017 ALCS as his excuse for the Yankees not winning a World Series championship in the last 15 years and only one (2009) in the last 24 years.

Does Cashman think that his team stole the 2024 ALCS from Cleveland because the Yankees outspent them 3 to 1?

Yankees: one championship in last 24 years. A fish rots from the head. Thursday, October 31, 2024

The Yankees have the highest AL payroll pretty much every year. Semi-finals (ALCS):
Yankees $291 million
Cleveland $94 million ...

When will the fish stop rotting? Yanks are one for 24 ... and counting.

Most recent championships: 2000 & 2009.

Hal Steinbrenner, youngest of the Steinbrenner kids (four children of the late George Steinbrenner 1930-2010) has been running the New York Yankees for about a decade after his older brother Hank died. Hal inherited incumbent general manager Brian Cashman who had been promoted to GM in February 1998. That's in the previous millennium.

The problems are anything but new. And they are obvious. And documented here:

Yankees need to clean house. Friday, September 20, 2013 ...

Only Hal Steinbrenner would keep Brian Cashman. Thursday, November 7, 2019

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... the Yankees’ sitting on a 15-year World Series championship drought ...

That championship drought has been a point of contention for Cashman, who has long insisted that the 2017 Yankees could well have won the World Series if they were not “cheated” (as he says) by the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal. Cashman has been openly hostile to all things Astros in the years since ...

(Astro) Alex Bregman is the only star third baseman available in free agency. ... Cashman has continued to take shots at the 2017 Houston team that beat the Yankees in the ALCS, doing so as recently as last week. “I hate the 15-year (pennant drought) because it completely forgets and discounts that some other organization cheated us. … I think we would’ve been advancing,” the GM said in an appearance on MLB Network’s High Heat.

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Cashman is a major league weasel in addition to being semi competent. The first rule in boxing: protect yourself at all times.

I never complained about the Astros stealing the signs in 2017. Cashman has not stopped complaining. I looked at the splits of individual Astros and saw no real benefit. For instance in 2017 MVP Jose Altuve hit much better on the road. Of course, Altuve claimed to have not taken the signs, like Monte Irvin in 1951.

Altuve 2017 regular season OPS:
home .835
road 1.082

Houston beat the Yankees 4-3 in games with the home team winning all games. The Yankees scored lots of runs in the three middle games (8, 6, 5) in Yankee Stadium but in Houston they scored: 1, 1, 1, 0. Yankees not scoring had nothing to do with sign stealing.

Obviously, even if they had advanced to the 2017 World Series they had a 50-50 chance of losing.

Oh, Bregman (will be 31 March 30, 2025) has been declining and isn't worth big bucks. But he's the kind of mistake Cashman can't resist.

Alex Bregman OPS+:
2022: 134
2023: 122
2024: 118

2017 ALCS, game 7

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Start Time: 7:09 p.m. Local

Attendance: 43,201

Venue: Minute Maid Park

Game Duration: 3:09

Night Game, on grass

Astros 4, Yankees 0

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str
CC Sabathia, L (1-1)	3.1	5	1	1	3	0	1	2.37	18	65	36
Tommy Kahnle	1.1	4	3	3	0	1	1	2.38	7	25	15
Adam Warren	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.08	4	17	13
David Robertson	2	1	0	0	0	3	0	4.15	7	27	18
Team Totals	8	10	4	4	3	4	2	4.50	36	134	82

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/3/2024.

Kahnle just lost the final game of the 2024 World Series:

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str
Gerrit Cole	6.2	4	5	0	4	6	0	2.17	30	108	76
Clay Holmes, H (5)	0.1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2.25	2	11	4
Tommy Kahnle, L (1-1)	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	2.08	3	8	3
Luke Weaver, BS (3)	1.1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1.76	7	22	13
Mark Leiter Jr.	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.69	2	7	4
Team Totals	9	7	7	2	7	9	0	2.00	44	156	100

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/31/2024.

Tommy Kahnle faced 3 batters in the 8th inning.

Is there a statute of limitation on whining?