The rumor mill in New York has been moving steady since the Yankees announced that Joe Girardi wouldn’t return as Yankees manager in 2018. We’re still waiting to have a lot of questions answered, but the Yankee GM spoke to the media today about what went wrong with Girardi and his vision for the next manager.
Connection with the players seems to have been Girardi’s downfall. Cashman noted that Girardi struggled to communicate, engage, and connect with his players. Girardi, of course, disagreed with that assessment. A popular refrain has been that Girardi simply wasn’t the right manager to lead the Yankees going forward, and Cashman seems to have agreed with that.