重点: Hank支持Girardi, 但对Cashman则比较不那麽肯定 1. 不久前，打得跌跌撞撞的洋基球队遇到难得的假日时，可能会接到愤怒的球团老板 George Steinbrenner对总教练的批评。现在物换星移，则只有一点改变。 2. Hank Steinbrenner与他的弟弟Hal两人是洋基队的共同主席，Hank在周一一个广泛 的电话专访中称赞Joe Giarardi。但是垫底的洋基队战蹟卡在20胜24败时，这球队 的建筑师，总经理Brian Cashman，只收到有限的支持。 3. 谈到Giaradi，Hank表示: "我想他做得不错，这很单纯 － 他在玩手上可以处理的牌， 就跟我一样。他正尽可能做到最好了，我对Joe有完全的信任。" Giardi的合约签到 2010年，是由Steinbrenner兄弟俩和Giaradi面谈後成为总教练。Cashman的合约则已 届期，当他和新老板兄弟俩的关系还在相互调适，又碰上球队战绩不理想的状况， Cashman的未来还是个未知数。 4. 周二，A-Rod因拉伤右边的四头肌错失了17场比赛归队後，洋基的战蹟应该会有所提昇 。从这天起洋基本季打出的战绩将影响Cashman的未来。Hank表示: "假如Brian想要留 下来当GM，他会有那个机会。假如他不想留下来，他也不用勉强。那球队现在的状况， 我还会不会希望他当GM呢? 是的，我希望。" 5. 去年冬天在Cashman和Hal反对交易Santana之前，Hank是很希望达成这项交易的。他周 一提到了一些下一个季後想作的事，强调球队重要的提议会由他来决定。他说: "我的 工作就是赢球，我将会作任何可以赢球的事。我通常不是只专注在建立农场上，就像某 些人所强调的。我已经看球看了35年了，但这是我和我弟弟第一年经营球队，而我必须 玩我手上可以处理的牌，就像Joe做得一样。这些牌是否有效会影响季後会发生什麽事 ，我将做任何我认为可以赢球的事。过去五到七年有很多的错误，跟我没有关系，跟 Joe也没有关系 － 很多也跟Brian没有关系。" 6. Cashman2005年後同意回到洋基的前提是，棒球运作部门必须完全由他主导。从那之後 他的提议，即使有也很少没有受到高层认可的。但是假如洋基今年没法进到季後赛 － 而且假如Hank认为原因就在於没有交易来Santana造成这样的差别 － 势必将削减到 Cashman拥有的权力。如果事情往这样发展的话，Cashman甚至再也不会想待这个位子。 7. Cashman表示他每天至少和Steinbrenner家族的一个成员谈话，但是双方不到球季结束 都不会想谈新合约。Cashman表示: "我是G.M.，GM工作就是让球队不只现在还包括未来 都具有冠军球队的程度。这是一种平衡的作法，只有球队的拥有人才有资格回答折冲的 底线在那里，我不在其位不谋其政(没有资格说明他们的看法)。" 8. 洋基的农场球队打得很好，但是Phil Hughes和Ian Kennedy却还没到准备好成为大联盟 球员的程度，而且攻击火力是一团糟，最近11场比赛平均只得2.82分，本季平均也只得 4.02分。去年洋基整年拿了968分，平均每场得到5.98分，是1937年以来最高的。以现 在的表现今年将只会得到659分，是很惊人落差。 9. 一个最近跟随洋基的球探表示，洋基队中一些年纪大的资深打者很大的弱点在於近身的 内角球，原因是他们失掉了挥棒的速度。但是这位球探承认A-Rod和Posada的伤对打线 的破坏度也很高。这位球探表示: "洋基建立在他们球队可以得到大量的分数，球队1/4 的攻击力 － 有多少呢，是250分的打点 － 基本上现在已经从打线中被拿掉了。这是 难有竞争力的，特别是洋基板凳球员的攻击力是我见过有史以来最差的。" 10. 自从A-Rod 4月29日放到伤兵名单後，他的替代球员打击率是0.211，没有打出全垒打 ，只有三分打点。Posada的替代球员，Jose Molina也打得不好。但对Hank而言，这些 问题不足解释攻击能力的瓦解。Hank表示: "你全部的打线不会在季後才五个月就全部 　　死掉。这是不可能的事，实际上不可能的事，在这五个月里他们不会全部都变那麽差 　　。我不知道原因是什麽，受伤当然是部份的因素。但终究，我真的相信我们打击会回 　　到至少去年的表现水准左右。" 11. 失掉右打者A-Rod和左右开弓的Posada，已经让洋基对上左投手时变得相当无助。从 A-Rod不在打线後，他们8场对上左投手的比赛已经输掉了7场。Johnny Damon说: "我 们期待至少护住城池，整军打出一些有品质的比赛，然後打出比现在更好的状况。但 是我们没有。" Cashman说A-Rod归队可以维持打线的平衡，然而他没做任何保证，他 　 他说他相信打者过去的记录。他说: "你必须保持客观不能情绪性，必须勇敢面对艰 难的挑战。我可以提供一些为什麽我们会打成这样可以打成怎样的原因，一些人可能 会拿这些当成藉口，但这不一定有用。我唯一可以告诉你的是，只要我们可以维持健 康，我相信也预期我们可以比现在打出更接近我们正常情况的水准。" 12. Hank重覆说着，他相信洋基可以回复状况打进季後赛，就像他们在2005和2007年所办 到的一样。问到过去的历史是否对今年有启示性，Cashman给了一个奇怪及会心一笑的 的答覆: "是还是否呢，过去我曾经沿着这条路走过，但是我不要再一次沿这条路走了 。" 资料来源: www.nytimes.com Support for Girardi, a Bit Less for Cashman By TYLER KEPNER Published: May 20, 2008 Not long ago, a humbling weekend for a stumbling Yankees team could have provoked the principal owner, George Steinbrenner, into criticizing the manager. Times have changed, but only to a point. Hank Steinbrenner, who is co-chairman of the Yankees with his brother, Hal, praised Manager Joe Girardi in a wide-ranging telephone interview on Monday. But with the last-place Yankees sputtering along at 20-24, the architect of the team, General Manager Brian Cashman, received only measured support. Speaking of Girardi, Steinbrenner said: “I think he’s doing fine. It’s pretty simple — he’s playing the hand that he was dealt, just like I am. He ’s doing the best job he can. I have complete confidence in Joe.” Girardi is signed through 2010, and the Steinbrenner brothers interviewed him for the job. Cashman has an expiring contract, and his future is uncertain as he and the new bosses adjust to each other against the backdrop of an underachieving team. The Yankees will get a boost on Tuesday when Alex Rodriguez returns to the lineup after missing 17 games with a strained right quadriceps. The way the season plays out from here could determine Cashman’s future. “If Brian wants to be the G.M. next year, there’s a chance he will be,” Steinbrenner said. “If he doesn’t want to, he won’t be. At this point, do I still want him to be the G.M.? Yeah, I do.” Steinbrenner wanted to trade for Johan Santana last winter before Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner decided against it. He made several references on Monday to the next off-season, stressing that he was determined to make any moves necessary. “My job is to win, and I’m going to do everything I can to win,” Steinbrenner said. “It’s not like I just came in off the farm, like some people claim. I’ve been around the game for 35 years, but this is my first year, along with my brother, in running the team, and I have to play with the cards I was dealt, just like Joe does. “Whether those cards work or not will determine what happens in the off-season, and I’m going to do whatever I have to do to win,” he continued. “There’s been a lot of mistakes the last five to seven years that I had nothing to do with and Joe had nothing to do with — and quite a few things Brian had nothing to do with.” When Cashman agreed to return after the 2005 season, he did so with the promise that the baseball operations department would be organized below him. Since then, there have been few, if any, moves that Cashman did not endorse. But if the Yankees miss the playoffs — and if Steinbrenner believes that Santana would have made the difference — it could undercut Cashman’s authority. If that happens, Cashman may not even want the job anymore. Cashman said he spoke with at least one Steinbrenner family member every day. But the sides do not expect to discuss a new contract until the season is over. “My job as the G.M. is to get ourselves championship-caliber now as well as in the future,” Cashman said. “That’s the balancing act. Only ownership can answer the bottom line from there. I wouldn’t put myself in position to speak for them.” The Yankees’ farm teams are playing well, but the top prospects Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy have not seemed ready for the majors. And the offense is in a tailspin, averaging 2.82 runs over the last 11 games and 4.07 for the season. Last year, the Yankees averaged 5.98 runs a game for 968 in all, their highest total since 1937. At their current pace, they would score 659 runs this season, a staggering drop-off. One scout who has followed the Yankees recently said some of the team’s older veterans have looked more vulnerable to inside pitches because they are losing bat speed. But the scout acknowledged that injuries to Rodriguez and Jorge Posada have been devastating. “The Yankees built their team around a big offense scoring a ton of runs,” said the scout, who was granted anonymity so he could speak candidly about another team. “One-fourth of the offense — what is it, 250 runs batted in? — is basically out of the lineup right now. It’s a lot harder to compete, especially because this is the worst Yankees bench I’ve ever seen.” Since Rodriguez went on the disabled list April 29, his replacements have hit .211 with no home runs and three runs batted in. Posada’s replacement, José Molina, has also struggled. For Steinbrenner, those problems alone do not explain the offensive breakdown. “Your entire lineup doesn’t go dead in the five months of the off-season,” Steinbrenner said. “It’s an impossibility, a physical impossibility. They don’t all become that bad in five months. “I don’t know what the reason is. Injuries certainly are part of it, but I don’t know the reason we’ve had so many cold bats. Eventually, I really do believe we’re going to get back to at least the vicinity of where we were last year.” The loss of the right-handed Rodriguez and the switch-hitting Posada has made the Yankees look helpless against left-handers. Since Rodriguez went down, they have lost seven of eight games started by lefties. “We expected to at least hold down the fort and put together some quality games and be better than what we have been,” Johnny Damon said. “But we haven’t.” Cashman said Rodriguez’s return would help balance the lineup, and while he made no guarantees, he said he believed in the hitters’ track records. “You have to stay objective and not get emotional, and you have to attack what ails you,” Cashman said. “I can offer facts about why we are where we are. Some people would take those as excuses, and it doesn’t necessarily matter. The one thing I’ll tell you is, as long as we can get healthy, I do trust and expect that we will perform much closer to our norms than we are right now.” Steinbrenner said repeatedly that he believed the Yankees could recover and make the playoffs, just as they did in 2005 and 2007. Asked if that history was instructive for this year, Cashman gave a weary and knowing reply. “Yes and no,” he said. “I’ve been down this road before. But I don’t like being down this road — ever.” --

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