Brian Cashman pushes back on Joe Kelly’s Yankees takedown: Feels ‘a little personal’

Yankees wide head Brian Cashman has reacted to sharply captious comments made by Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly successful nan aftermath of nan World Series.

At MLB GM meetings successful San Antonio, Texas, connected Tuesday, Cashman was asked astir remarks Kelly made connected nan “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast successful which he compared and contrasted nan Dodgers’ attraction to item versus nan Yankees’.

“Look astatine nan team, look astatine nan talent. We spell done galore scouting reports. We salary attraction to each azygous detail. We person a batch of large superstars successful our clubhouse, but our superstars besides attraction and aren’t lazy and play hard. That’s nan difference, and nan biggest separator,” Kelly said of nan 2 teams.

Cashman disagreed pinch Kelly’s premise.

“They’re nan world champs and they get each nan credit, but I don’t deliberation it’s a adjacent practice astatine nan aforesaid time,” he said, as covered by SNY.

“I deliberation it’s much adjacent to opportunity that we conscionable played poorly successful that bid and underperformed. I deliberation we underperformed successful that bid much truthful than someway [the Yankees] were fortunate to get to nan World Series and really did we moreover get there.”

The Dodgers won nan World Series successful 5 games aft nan Yankees blew leads successful Games 1 and 5.

Cashman’s contention was that nan Yankees were a “good team” that conscionable “didn’t play our champion erstwhile it counted nan most.”

Kelly was not connected nan Dodgers’ NLCS aliases World Series rosters owed to injury.

On nan podcast, he ripped nan Yankees for being “sloppy” during nan World Series and said he would’ve classed nan Padres, Phillies, Braves and Mets up of them successful his level of value shot teams this season.

“They sewage bad ball. Yeah, sloppy. Everyone knows that,” Kelly said. “We were saying each azygous game. ‘Just fto them propulsion nan shot into nan infield, they can’t make a play.’ You saw Shohei [Ohtani] get an other guidelines going to 3rd disconnected a sloppy Gleyber [Torres] play. It’s good known. We each knew.”

At nan GM meetings, Cashman continued to brushwood disconnected nan reliever’s comments.

“I besides cognize group pinch nan Dodges truthful I’ve sewage immoderate soul conversations that I’ve surely sewage feedback on, I deliberation it’s much typical of immoderate circumstantial players alternatively than nan wide group,” he said. “And successful Joe’s case, it feels for illustration it’s immoderate logic it’s a small personal, you know, nan measurement he’s retired talking for illustration he has. So it feels for illustration that’s much individual than thing else.

“So, I can’t make overmuch much of it than that. I cognize he’s surely talking a batch correct now. And, hey he won, aliases they won, so, I tin conscionable opportunity what I conscionable said.”