Brian Cashman
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"Brian McGuire Cashman" is an American Major League Baseball executive for the New York Yankees. He has been their General Manager and Senior Vice President since 1998.

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I know Hideki wanted to stay and we wanted to keep him, and that created a great environment for us to get it done. Thankfully, we got it done with a few hours to spare.

He's a unique player. Not only is he someone who is incredibly talented on the field, but that talent actually translates to success in New York.

He provides a lot of interest from Japan. What generally sells -- because we?re a business -- is team and winning.

With the offensive lineup that we have, you can afford that, to squeeze something like that in, ... If you can get a fly-ball catcher to hold the fort and support the pitching staff, you won?t be doing yourself an injustice.

This is my ninth year as general manager and, when you find players who can perform on the big stage in New York, it makes it that much more important to retain those players.

It's not my style to qualify where we are throughout the process, ... We'll keep talking until we get it done or not.

I've been keeping up with everything, ... I can multitask. You have to, or you lose ground. I've been busy communicating with clubs and player agents.

Everybody's just different. Sheff [ Gary Sheffield ] took no more than two months. [Mike] Mussina took about three months. Roger took a year and the first two months of the next season. Alex [Rodriguez] took most of last season, but in the second half he took off for us.

There is a business side that comes along with us because of his status. That?s certainly a factor in this.