Yankees GM, Brian Cashman, believes he’ll have a new contract with the Yankees by the end of this month according to Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.

“It’ll get done between now and Oct. 31st, I’m sure,” Cashman said. “I can’t promise, but I think that’s what everybody expects. I know it’s something that everybody has to follow. But that’s not a pressing circumstance, as far as something I’m worried about right now.”

“I’m sure it could get done over the phone, from my perspective,” he said. “I don’t want to speak for him.”

Hoch adds that Cashman is completing a three-year, $6 million agreement with the club. Last week, we learned that the negotiations between the parties were “going smoothly.” Cashman also said that his expiring contract “has not affected how he attacks his offseason duties,” says Hoch.

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