Cashman details faking out Red Sox, boosting Crawford’s price

[big dog cowboy]

Cashman details faking out Red Sox, boosting Crawford’s price
By David Brown
Fri Sep 23 02:28pm EDT

Back during December's major league free-agent frenzy, New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman admitted to Jack Curry of the YES Network that he faked having an interest in free agent Carl Crawford(notes), just so the Boston Red Sox would have to pay more money to sign him.

Which they did, to the tune of $142 million.

Since then, Crawford has apologized for failing to live up to the expectations of the contract, and the Red Sox are struggling to make the playoffs. The Yankees, who most (not me!) picked to finish behind Boston, are meanwhile working on posting the best record in the American League.

In reflecting on how his team's own offseason acquisitions affected the Yankees' drive to finishing first in the AL East, Cashman detailed his thoughts to ESPN New York regarding his "pursuit" of Crawford. Yep, it was nothing but monkeyshines with agent Greg Genske.

They both used Boston's paranoia — along with the media — to their mutual advantage:

"I actually had dinner with the agent to pretend that we were actually involved and drive the price up," Cashman said. "The outfield wasn't an area of need, but everybody kept writing Crawford, Crawford, Crawford, Crawford. And I was like, 'I feel like we've got Carl Crawford in Brett Gardner, except he costs more than $100 million less, with less experience.' "

Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big...rn=mlb-wp20606

[Rogah]

Originally Posted by big dog cowboy

Cashman details faking out Red Sox, boosting Crawford’s price
By David Brown
Fri Sep 23 02:28pm EDT

I'm not sure Cashman should be flappin' his yap over this. He's made quite a few boneheaded maneuvers of his own.

[jimmy40]

Originally Posted by Rogah

I'm not sure Cashman should be flappin' his yap over this. He's made quite a few boneheaded maneuvers of his own.

yep...