I noticed something in the Cash article:

If Joe Torre is the Yankee manager next spring, his coaching staff is going to be a lot different. With Mel Stottlemyre leaving and Joe Girardi likely to be hired by the Marlins as their manager, Torre will need a pitching coach and a bench coach.

Yesterday, Girardi had his second meeting with the Marlins. He also met for the first time with the Devil Rays.

One option to fill the bench-coach position is shifting Don Mattingly from hitting coach and hiring Chili Davis as hitting coach. Former O's manager and Yankee coach Lee Mazzilli also could be a bench-coach candidate.

Third-base coach Luis Sojo and first-base coach Roy White appear to be in the most jeopardy, with the possibility of Sojo moving from third to first. Some in the organization believe the Yankees need to retain Sojo to work with second baseman Robinson Cano.

The Mattingly to bench coach move is interesting. Would that be lining him up as the heir apparent? I was actually already thinking about that, but wasn't sure who would be the hitting coach. Chili Davis was someone I didn't think of... would he be a good fit? Not sure. Would Mazzilli come back? Would he be a good bench coach? I suppose Piniella has to be a manager, so his name couldn't be considered. Leo Mazzone, Neil Allen, Billy Connors and Ron Guidry are some of the names being mentioned for the pitching job. A lot of questions, not many answers.

The Roy White thing is kind of out of the blue to me. Obviously, he's a Yankee legend, but also... I didn't see any reason for it, other than someone feeling that Sojo wasn't doing his job? But, I didn't really see that Sojo had done anything resembling a bad job, either? Ultimately, though, it's (hopefully) Torre's staff and he'll need to be comfortable with the moves being made.