Brian Cashman loves creating competition in camp. It’s been one of the staples of his tenure and a mentality that most prominently came to life in the spring of 2017 when he persistently maintained that the right field spot was an open competition.
That *throat clear* battle was eventually won by Aaron Judge who went on to belt 52 home runs that year…
We’ve seen it play out more recently through Clint Frazier’s journey to finally breaking the everyday lineup or, perhaps most ruthlessly, when Cashman signed Mike Tauchman days before camp broke in 2019 to bump Tyler Wade off the opening day roster (Wade hit .