When Oakland’s Billy Beane and San Francisco’s Brian Sabean moved on to more senior, advisory positions in the past few years, Brian Cashman became the longest-tenured executive running day-to-day baseball operations for one team.
And it isn’t really close. Cashman became the Yankees’ general manager in 1998 and the next on the list is Texas’ Jon Daniels, who began in 2005.
In all that time – two decades and counting – Cashman has made trades of just about every type you can imagine: small, large, medium; for starters, relievers, sluggers. But you know what he has never done?