TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman understands why Hank Steinbrenner has expressed his frustration about last season.
Steinbrenner, the team’s co-chairman, said this week that the Yankees lacked hunger last year and maybe “were riding the wave of ’09 a little too much.” New York lost to Texas in the AL championship series, one year after the Yankees won their 27th World Series title.
Cashman said Wednesday: “Why we fall short, how we fell short, the bottom line is we fell short. It’s our job to make sure that anything that prevents us from getting there gets eliminated. Whether it’s complacency, whether it’s a lack of hunger, whether it’s a lack of talent, whether it’s not the right moves by my part, whatever they are, it’s our job to do better.”
