From the sounds of it, this year, he couldn’t add payroll. That’s problematic for the Yanks for 2021, imo. The only thing you can do as a GM is give your team a chance to win. It’s not up to the GM to put a team over the top, that’s on the coach and the players. To have deftly dealt with the corpses of Jeter and ARod, the upside down spending of a team on the downswing, and then rebuild the team into a title contending club for four years now is pretty good. High payroll guarantees you nothing beyond a better chance. I like Cashman. I think he flubbed the game 2 shit vs TB (sounds like Boone went along with an idea from the FO). I would have loved to have seen another warm body who can start come in at the deadline. Other than that, his small acquisitions seem to hit every year.