Giancarlo Stanton’s agent is mad at Brian Cashman for saying Stanton will probably get hurt next year since he’s hurt every year, and there’s worry that it may affect the Yankees’ pursuit of Yoshinobu Yamamoto since they share the same agent.
The B&G crew tried to guess on Wednesday how many games Stanton has missed in six years as a Yankee, and no one was close (except if it was The Price is Right) to guessing he has missed 321 of 870 possible regular-season games, including almost the whole season in 2019 and more than half of the truncated 2020 slate.
So yeah, Cashman wasn’t wrong, even if he probably shouldn’t have said the quiet part out loud, but Gio isn’t really that upset.
“The fact that it's over 300 is crazy, so I don't blame Brian Cashman at all for saying what he said,” Gio said. “I think it's great that he's firing back, and this off-season has gotten off to an exciting and interesting start for the Yankees – and I love how the agent comes out and goes, ‘oh, it just shows you that anybody who wants to play for that team has to have the thickest skin in the world to play in that market because you're not even safe in the off-season.’”
Joel Wolfe also mentioned “someone would have to consider that” when negotiating as a free agent, but do they really, especially when it comes to his other client in Yamamoto?
“Like, doofus, you need the Yankees involved in these things you idiot, so you get paid!” Gio said.
“First call will be to Brian Cashman, ‘Hey, you want Yamamoto?’” Boomer fired back. “You know, just so we can get him and Steve Cohen involved.”
Here’s the thing, though: if Stanton’s unhappy, he’s the one who ultimately controls his fate with his no-trade clause…assuming someone even wants him?
“I told you the other day when Brian Cashman came out and said all this, I knew that there was going to be some sort of blowback from the Stanton side on it,” Boomer said.
“Who in the hell, even if he waived that thing, would want that guy? That’s the biggest problem,” Gio replied. “There's not a single team on earth that would take that load right now. He's worthless. He doesn't play, and when he does play he’s not any good, and he has this albatross of a contract – you’d have to be a stone cold moron to take Giancarlo Stanton on your baseball team, even if you just took him for nothing. It’d be the dumbest thing ever clogging up your payroll and making you closer to the luxury tax.”
Boomer went through the remainder of Stanton’s deal, and yes, it’s not great for anyone.
“The point we understand is he misses a lot of time,” Gio said. “Brian Cashman said it, and he’s right.”
