This will probably come as quite a surprise to his many critics (of which I have been one), but whether the Yankees are able to get back to the World Series or not this year, Brian Cashman deserves to be voted major league executive of the year by his peers — and it shouldn’t be close.

I know how the heavy analytic-based approach to putting the team together has resulted in one dimensional, fundamentally-challenged Yankee teams in recent years, raising the cries of frustrated Yankee legions calling for Cashman’s head. And while there’s still a lot of that in this present Yankee bunch, they are where they are — heading comfortably into the postseason — on the strength of 8-9 highly successful trades and signings as well as the continued development of “system” players like Ben Rice, Jass

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