In two decades as GM of the New York Yankees, and with his 50th birthday on deck in July, Brian Cashman has accomplished a lot. He has been a part of five championship teams. He has never allowed his franchise to finish below .500. He has survived in a job that once was just a temporary position.
But now he is earning something that has mostly evaded him: respect.
Respect as one of the great GMs in the game, and one, along with Theo Epstein and Billy Beane, who might have a pathway to Cooperstown.