DYLAN CEASE JUST MADE THE BLUE JAYS EVEN BETTER

Us Yankee fans? We should be calling the Yankee complaint line on speed dial! 

The Yankees are once again standing around like they’re waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. I’ve been screaming—SCREAMING—for them to upgrade their pitching, because Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón aren’t walking through that door anytime soon unless it’s for an MRI. That leaves poor Max Fried abandoned on a desert island with nothing but a volleyball named Will Warren and Luis Gil as a sidekick.

That’s not a rotation. That’s a cry for help.

And don’t tell me this franchise is “competitive” or “serious.” Competitive teams actually try. Serious teams actually look at the players who can help them win. Meanwhile, Brian Cashman is out here running the Yankees like he’s blindfolded, spinning in circles, and pointing at names on a dartboard.

Because right there — RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM — was Dylan Cease.
A gift. A layup. A flashing, Vegas-sized billboard screaming, “HEY BRIAN, THIS IS A STARTING PITCHER YOU COULD SIGN.”

And what did Cashman do?
Absolutely nothing.
Didn’t even pretend to care.

You know who did open their eyes?
The Toronto Blue Jays — a team that apparently remembers how winning works. They handed Cease a seven-year, $210 million deal, per Jon Heyman, because they actually want to improve. They looked at their already-loaded rotation of Gausman, Berríos, Bieber, and Yesavage and said, “You know what? Let’s make this unfair.”

Cease has a fire, a competitive pulse, an actual starter’s mentality — all the things the Yankees desperately need and Cashman can’t seem to identify unless the guy is 36 years old and coming off Tommy John surgery.

But don’t worry: while Toronto is assembling a pitching Voltron, Cashman is showing off his big offseason move…

Yerry Rodríguez.
Stop the presses.

It’s embarrassing. It’s incompetent. It’s Cashman being Cashman — the GM who manages to walk past every obvious upgrade like he’s shopping with a grocery list he dropped down a sewer grate.

What a joke.