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Yankees GM still upset about 'illegal and horrific' playoff loss to cheating Astros

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is focused on 2022, but he's still a bit salty about the past.

In an interview with The Athletic's Andy McCullough about the Yankees' 12-season World Series drought, Cashman couldn't help but bring up the 2017 Yankees, a team that lost to the sign-stealing Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. Cashman was pretty blunt about the situation: he believes the cheating Astros unfairly stopped the Yankees from making it to the World Series.

“The only thing that stopped [us] was something that was so illegal and horrific,” Cashman told The Athletic at George M.