TAMPA — In endurance, Brian Cashman is peerless.
With John Mozeliak out in St. Louis and Mike Rizzo ousted in Washington, the second longest-tenured baseball operations chief is A.J. Preller, whom the Padres hired in August 2014 — 28 years after Cashman began his professional life with the Yankees and 16 years after Cashman rose to GM in 1998.
This is Year 41 in the Yankees family for Cashman, who as an 18-year-old in 1986 became an intern in the minor league and scouting department, and began to learn to live under George Steinbrenner. This will be Season 29 as general manager for the ultimate New York survivor and longest-lasting Yankees GM ever — Ed Barrow a distant runner-up at 24 ½ years. Cashman’s contemporaries have been lapped, his longevity maybe one day compared with ghosts like Connie Mack.
Some people get bored. Some people get fired. Some people look around and wonder what else there is to conquer.
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