Brian Cashman: Yankees won’t spend like ‘drunken sailors’ after losing Juan Soto

Brian Cashman: Yankees won’t spend like ‘drunken sailors’ after losing Juan Soto

In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, the New York Yankees lost slugger Juan Soto, who ultimately moved across town to Queens to sign the richest deal in American sports history (15 years, $765 million).

With Soto’s departure, the 2025 winter will be a big one–plus the ones ahead–for the reigning American League champs as the core begins to age. Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton aren’t getting any younger, and there’s no good plan B for Soto, a 26-year-old potential future Hall of Famer who’s one of the best hitters of his generation.

That said, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman appeared tame with how the team would proceed with the rest of their offseason–not attempting to overreact to losing Soto.

“I just would say [Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner] went above and beyond to try to find a way to keep Juan Soto in pinstripes,” Cashman said Monday at MLB’s Winter Meetings “But there’s a lot of different ways to figure this thing out, and so we’re just going to have to figure it out a different way.”

“Our work continues as we focus on our team and how to reconfigure. Our efforts on a year-in, year-out basis don’t change. We’re always trying to be the best team we possibly can be so we can get into the playoffs and take a shot at the World Series.

“We’re not going to be drunken sailors.”

Immediately replacing a generational talent is practically impossible, so Cashman’s going to have to get creative to attempt to field a good team in front of an enraged fanbase. The roster isn’t very well constructed and will have plenty of holes to fill at 1B, 2B, 3B, OF, SP and the back end of their bullpen. For better or worse, there’s going to plenty of new faces donning pinstripes next spring … most likely.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat. But the last thing he should do is willingly overspend similar to what they did in 2014 after losing Robinson Cano to the Seattle Mariners. That didn’t work out well, and history could repeat itself if the front office isn’t smart about allocating its resources during this year’s free agency and subsequent transaction periods.

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