New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman calls comments by Houston Astros owner Jim Crane 'deflection'

Nice try, Jim.

Brian Cashman was sarcastic when he responded to Astros owner Jim Crane about his comments against the Yankees general manager.

Cashman said before the first game of the four-game set against the White Sox that he didn't think anyone would dance to the tune he was singing.

Cashman responded to Crane's comments to USA Today. In an interview with The Athletic in the spring, Crane denied that the Astros sign-stealing scandal was one of the reasons for the Yankees recent championship dry spell.

Cashman said earlier this spring that the only thing that stopped the Yankees was something that was illegal. The only thing that derailed us was a cheating circumstance.

Crane categorized Cashman's comments as extremely strange, particularly in light of the letter MLB commissioner Rob Manfred sent to the Yankees in 2017, which became public last month.

The Yankees were found to have engaged in illegal use of their video replay room to steal signs and then relay them to the bench in 2015, and 2016 according to the letter. The Yankees used an iPad to watch a live game broadcast from the relief pitcher in June of last year, according to the letter. The Yankees were fined $100,000 by MLB.

Crane told USA Today that you were doing it as well. What are you talking about? I would keep my mouth shut if I were one of the teams and I knew our team was doing it.

Cashman pointed out the fact that the letter did not state that the Yankees had any real-time signs to the hitters during live-bats, which was the threshold established in the Astros case in 2017).

Cashman said that nobody equates what the Astros did with what Major League Baseball said.

In a statement after the letter was released, the Yankees pointed out that the club was not being punished for sign stealing but for improper use of the telephone in the replay room.

Cashman said he didn't mind the release of the letter despite Randy Levine's push to keep it under seal.

Cashman said there was nothing to fear from that letter.

In September of last year, Manfred sent a memo to all teams warning them that they would face stiff penalties if they violated sign-stealing rules.

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Cashman said that no one would dance to the tune that Crane was singing. There is no equivalent to any of it. That is why I said it was a ruse. No one is buying it. No one is singing to that song. It is what it is. I applaud him for trying.