Well, we were very upset at losing him... and at having the lead anchor Jacoby Ellsbury hung around our neck with the money that would have been saved. Holy Cow, was Ellsbury a terrible free agent, among the worst in history!!!
But, the whispers among Yankee fans was that the Yankees had let him slip away because he was known to be a doper. I was never sure that they didn’t just whisper that to placate the outraged mob, especially when the Yankee offense was so terrible. (The anger subsided with Sterling Hitchcock’s ascent.) Now it looks like it was real.
Frankly, apart from the Ellsbury fiasco, it seems like the Yankees handled the Cano situation right: ditch the doper, and quietly and locally explain why in a way that won’t slander him to his new team.
I loved rookie Robby and milky they made the Yankees fun again.
They signed Ellsbury to mitigate the anger of the fans at losing Cano, as I recall.
I saw Sterling Hitchcock in A ball. I saw a bunch of those 1990s dynasty Yankees in A ball.