Yankees won’t blink first in Manny Machado sweepstakes

When Oakland’s Billy Beane and San Francisco’s Brian Sabean moved on to more senior, advisory positions in the past few years, Brian Cashman became the longest-tenured executive running day-to-day baseball operations for one team. And it isn’t really close. Cashman became the Yankees’ general manager in 1998 and the next on the list is Texas’…