Well, that was some general managers’ meetings.

Beginning with Brian Cashman’s fiery defense of his baseball operations group and ending with a virus that spread its way around executives — including a handful from the Yankees — it was an eventful few days in Scottsdale, Ariz.

It was the first time we heard from the Yankees — both Cashman, in Arizona, and Hal Steinbrenner, via Zoom — since their disappointing 82-80 season ended. The organization stayed mostly silent for five weeks and then delivered a doubleheader of sessions with reporters on Tuesday that may have just enraged an already fed-up fan base even further.

The reality, as Cashman acknowledged a few times in his 67-minute scrum, is that there was not much he could have said that would have fully satisfied those fans.