Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman didn’t dance around his feelings for the 2023 season. "It’s been a disaster," he told reporters, via SNY.tv, on Wednesday while his team is mired in a nine-game losing streak, the longest the franchise has experienced since 1982. "It’s definitely a shock.
Certainly, I don’t think anybody on our side of the fence, from our player group, from our coaches, from our manager, or even outside the organization, would’ve predicted this." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman looks on during batting practice before a game between the Yankees and the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium on June 20, 2023 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) The Yankees entered play against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday with a 60-65 record, sitting in dead last place in the AL East — the division they won last year with a 99-63 record.
And FanGraphs officially had them with a 0.0% chance to win the World Series this year, as their playoff hopes are all but mathematically non-existent.
Simply put, the Yankees, a team many believed would at least receive a postseason berth in the American League this season with the second-largest payroll in MLB only smaller than the New York Mets, have been one of the league’s biggest failures.