To most fans, he’s the organization’s president who oftentimes says the wrong thing and/or comes too close to the baseball-personnel side of operations. Take the Dellin Betances example as a perfect example.
While the Yanks flame-throwing reliever found himself smack dab in the middle of negotiations prior to arbitration, Levine was coming out with silly comments condemned everywhere, via Newsday.
Late Saturday morning team president Randy Levine held a surprise conference call with reporters in which he used words such as “ridiculous,” “half-baked” and “fantasy” to characterize Betances’ $5-million request and even called Betances a “victim” of his agents’ desire to reestablish the arbitration marketplace for reliever compensation.