{"id":241713,"date":"2025-10-26T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241713\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:28:11","slug":"brian-cashman-linked-to-playoff-crapshoot-heres-why-he-shouldnt-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241713\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cashman linked to playoff &#8216;crapshoot&#8217; \u2014 here&#8217;s why he shouldn&#8217;t be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/sports\/joe-torre-knows-just-how-hard-dodgers-world-series-repeat-quest-is\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers are in the World Series<\/a> again, looking to win their second straight championship and third in the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>So much for Brian Cashman\u2019s theory that the playoffs are a \u201ccrapshoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one problem: Cashman has never said they were.<\/p>\n<p>The line often attributed to the Yankees general manager \u2014 both in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wfan\/sports\/yankees\/brian-cashman-had-it-right-playoffs-are-absolute-crapshoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media and on talk radio<\/a> \u2014 comes from, among others, his friend Billy Beane, who was the GM of the then-2003 Oakland A\u2019s in 2003 and said, \u201cOur postseason tournament is just that \u2014 a tournament. We play for the right to get into that tournament. Then it can be a crapshoot. The beauty of baseball is that the best teams get to the postseason over 162 games. The contradiction is that the best team doesn\u2019t always win in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers are in the World Series again, looking to win their second straight championship and third in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,144290,591,2704,85,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-241713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brian-cashman","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}