Brian Cashman linked to playoff 'crapshoot' — here's why he shouldn't be

The Dodgers are in the World Series again, looking to win their second straight championship and third in the past six years.

So much for Brian Cashman’s theory that the playoffs are a “crapshoot.”

There’s only one problem: Cashman has never said they were.

The line often attributed to the Yankees general manager — both in the media and on talk radio — comes from, among others, his friend Billy Beane, who was the GM of the then-2003 Oakland A’s in 2003 and said, “Our postseason tournament is just that — a tournament. We play for the right to get into that tournament. Then it can be a crapshoot. The beauty of baseball is that the best teams get to the postseason over 162 games. The contradiction is that the best team doesn’t always win in the playoffs.”