Brian Cashman goes off the rails in NSFW Yankees presser at GM Meetings

If you were underwhelmed by the vague, PG version of Tuesday's end-of-season Yankees presser with Hal Steinbrenner, then let's get you over to the NC-17 screening featuring a semi-unhinged Brian Cashman! Little bit of something for everybody.

The General Managers Meetings are currently taking place in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Cashman clearly has a lot on his plate. There are so many discussions to be had with rival executives. Roster moves are being considered. Trade talks pop up. The media is present. You name it. A lot of running around and a lot of socializing, which can get the best of us from time to time.

Well, that time is now for Cashman, who was tasked with holding an exclusive presser after Steinbrenner spoke to reporters via Zoom earlier in the day and had the luxury of slamming his laptop shut at the end and saying, "F--- that S---. G--D------."

Cashman, unfortunately, was in public, nestled in the throng, with nowhere to go. He was getting ready to talk at 5 p.m. ET, all the appropriate media members would be there, and he would be surrounded and forced to answer whatever was hurled at him.

In his defense, he was the most candid Yankees fans have perhaps ever heard him be on Tuesday. But he was very much defensive, a bit irritated, and a smidge crazed. We cannot blame the man, but that's what we can deduce from these video clips.

Brian Cashman goes off the rails in NSFW Yankees presser at GM Meetings

Then again ... what is this? It's more nothingness! Cashman proclaiming the Yankees have the smallest analytics department in the American League East doesn't tell us anything. Nor does the fact the Yankees have the largest scouting department in Major League Baseball.

Actually, wait. You know what that tells us? It's that the Yankees are exceptionally bad at employing people! If you have a small analytics department and pride yourself on the minds you've cultivated in that room, there shouldn't be a moment in time where your captain calls out your practices. All it means is you have the smallest group of analytically-driven employees that apply the wrong metrics. And the scouting department? The largest scouting department in the WORLD has unearthed only Brett Gardner, Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe as the three best position players over the last 25 years? That tells us you have the largest and worst group of people trying to accomplish the same goal! But Cashman felt the need to defend the team's player development system, too.

Cashman explaining what life is in relation to baseball decisions was also rather unhelpful: sometimes things work, sometimes they don't, sometimes we do better, sometimes we do worse.

And that brings us to an unsettling topic: Cashman's trade history. And boy, did he feel the need to defend every single thing he's ever done ... but with little reasoning behind it.

He said the Yankees are "victimized" by trades that blow up in their face, and specifically referenced the Frankie Montas deal, claiming the right-hander "broke" after New York received clean medical reports before the trade became official. But then why would Montas come out and say he wasn't 100% healthy when the Yankees acquired him?

Cashman also said he "gets a kick" out of people who criticize the Joey Gallo and Sonny Gray trades. And guess what? We would agree with him in any other instance, but Gallo turned out to play the literal worst 140-game stretch in franchise history and Gray didn't get the coaching staff support he needed while he was here. That means somewhere, there's a breakdown in the organization causing some of these transactions to fall by the wayside. And when that happens? The guy in charge gets blamed. Sorry!

Who's picked up Gallo? Two playoff teams that ended up not using him in the postseason when the time came. Who picked up Gray? Two worse teams that figured out how to better utilize his pitch mix and bring him back to the forefront of the Cy Young discussion.

The Yankees reached an inflection point in 2023. Fans secretly knew deep down that it probably wasn't going to result in a mindset shift or a greater understanding of why everybody outside the organization has countless questions and is expressing endless frustration.

And they were validated in 60 minutes after Steinbrenner and Cashman opened their mouths on Tuesday.