Kevin Cash

He's incredibly smart.

He could be a guy like Kevin Cash that you hire forever, but he also could kind of blow up in your face.

And I think of that proposition as a positive because The biggest beef with the current version of the Mariners, Lyle, is that they haven't broken past this somehow impenetrable 90-win ceiling as a roster.

If you hire Jason Kanzler and you hear all this stuff about upside and new thought into this organization, you could potentially break through that 90-win ceiling if you hire him as your manager because he brings these ideas to you that you just haven't had before, and it brings out more from the players.

And I do think, like, again, I thought the Rays shot themselves in the foot at every opportunity and that they were this weird, we don't know who we are team.

One moment, Kevin Cash is letting his starter go into the eighth inning over 100 pitches and saying, oh, we're going to let him try to go for a... like a complete game, the next minute they're being like, let's take our best hitter out to put a bum in there because he's right-handed.

Yeah, let's make sure we don't throw our starter on five days rest so we can start our number three.

Like, they had no identity all of a sudden when they got to the World Series, but they were a quality baseball team.

Yeah.

Kevin Cash talked about after the game.

He said that was the best at-bat quality game-to-game, inning-to-inning that I've ever seen.

And it generally feels like that watching the Brewers and to some degree the Rays too.

I think he knew what he had in game five.

Because I felt like Kevin Cash rushed too many big arms out there.

Even though you had to.

Okay, hold on.

Yes, he had to go home.

But

who was ever at a disadvantage? The only person ever at a disadvantage was Kevin Cash.

No, I've seen some extra innings in the postseason where people burn their pitchers.

They just put so much pressure on you with how they put the ball in play and how they run the bases that no lead ever feels safe.

Um, I think you got to give a lot of credit to Rasmussen, who I don't think should have been in that position, given how Kevin Cash managed the series.

Had he started Game 1, you have him on full game rest for Game 5, and nothing of this series, in theory, would have changed.

You could argue maybe Nick Martinez would have been available for Game 4 to go into relief.

Um, But to me, looking at these teams that are in the World Series right now, they're just gritty.

Pat Murphy and Kevin Cash have done a great job of getting these guys out there and playing hard every single play.

We've heard it from post-game interviews and Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz.

And Derek Jeter talking about this is the way that baseball is supposed to be played.

It gave them their first home World Series win since 2008.

I'm glad they didn't get swept because I really like the Rays and I really like Kevin Cash.

But doggone it, that Brewers team was about the perfect beast.

I mean, look at the last 15 World Series winners, and they all have some DNA in common.

I think the White Sox manager will probably have a pretty good case for that as well.

And maybe Kevin Cash, too.

Yeah.

I think

The raise.

Really a great credit to Kevin Cash.

I guess after 12 years, he's got it down.

The formula is found.