Cash Gets Some Serious Cheddar to Stay With The Empire

This hit the wires earlier

Brian Cashman is staying with the only team he's ever worked for the New York Yankees.
The Bombers and their general manager agreed today to a three-year contract worth more than five (M) million dollars.
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner says in a statement he is happy that Cashman is staying with the team.
Now that Cashman and manager Joe Torre are staying, the Yankees can start their offseason moves.
The first priority will be to re-sign outfielder Hideki Matsui, who is eligible for free agency.
New York also has a deal that is all-but-finalized with former San Diego and Philadelphia manager Larry Bowa, who would become third base coach.

Good move by the Boss keeping Cashman with the Empire. He's the best man for this madhouse. Cashman was on WFAN earlier and it sounds as if the Tampa meddling that was commonplace last year will be kept to a minimum. Let's hope so. We'll see how the Boss reacts when the Yankees are mired in five game losing streak in June...

I like the Bowa move as well. He's a good baseball man and a good infield instructer provided you keep a leash on him. My concern is his relationship with Cano. Sojo was able to stay on him and hopefully Bowa will be able get through to him and help in his development. This kid can be a player and it's important to have the right coach to work with him.

I would rather have Dave Righetti here, but Gator Guidry as the pitching coach is cool with me. My only concern is the fact that he hasn't done this full-time...only during spring training. But Joe seems like the idea. So I'm cool with it for now.

More later...