Mark Teixeira had a setback. Yankees hitting coach Kevin long said yesterday that it wasn’t terribly surprising to him as, in his opinion, Teixeira’s wrist hadn’t “been right” since Teixeira came off the DL. This was news to Yankees GM Brian Cashman, who didn’t mince words expressing his dissatisfaction at his hitting coach:
Know what? Even though Cashman said he wasn’t mad at Long, I kinda think he’s mad at Long.
“It’s alarming in the fact that K-Long would say that to the group of the reporters, but he never said that prior to that,” Cashman said. “This is a lot of times how things work out when things go bad, things get said. If K-Long felt that way he should have been saying that from Day 1, but we never heard that from K-Long ... Am I mad at Kevin Long because of that? No,” said Cashman. “But do I think that commentary jibes with Kevin Long’s comments internally in that clubhouse regarding this player prior to him going down? Absolutely not. … If K-Long said that, he’s a monk because he kept his mouth shut the whole time.”
“Some people are better with the microphone than others,” he added. “Let’s put it that way.”
Know what? Even though Cashman said he wasn’t mad at Long, I kinda think he’s mad at Long.
