Brian Cashman’s daughter, Gracie, out to prove her new YES Network gig isn’t ‘a fluke nepotism thing’

Gracie, a Connecticut native, was a theater kid at a young age, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in theater at Northwestern University.

Her journey led to performing the national anthem at Giants and Yankees games, and since then she served as host of the reality show “The Tryout,” and is set to make her acting debut in a television movie set for release this year.

“I definitely went into that show with a chip on my shoulder because I think there was — I wanted to flex that I was trained in this, was meant to do this and that I had the knowledge of this sport specifically,” Gracie said of “The Tryout,” which centers around the quest to find the best amateur baseball player in America.

“I went in so prepared. I really came in guns blazing on that project. And I realized then that if I’m really coming in guns blazing on this, I must enjoy it. … That was the first time that I had really done something that there was this kind of crossover between what I had been trained to do and what I had grown up around.”

Gracie was born in 1998, which marked her father’s first year as the Yankees’ GM. Her younger brother, Teddy Cashman, is a freshman at Lafayette College and is an outfielder for the Leopards.

The Pinstripes are the only world Gracie knows.

“It feels weird to call anybody that my dad works with his co-workers because I’m positive they’re all gonna be at my wedding,” she said. “They are his only friends, they are very deeply ingrained in our lives.

“So it’s really special to then get to work to an extent for the organization, but also in talking about these really special memories and it was definitely informative.”

Getting pulled out of school in her adolescence was a reoccurring event when the Yankees won the World Series — which happened four times in her lifetime in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009.

Spending time with “uncle Nick [Swisher]” and trick-or-treating with Mariano Rivera’s kids were normal activities for Gracie and Teddy.

Gracie isn’t naive to the term “nepo baby,” which refers to the implication that children of celebrities or high-profile people will have success through their parents.  

“I think it’s something that I’m working on as a person,” she said of proving herself in certain spaces because of her name. “I think sometimes you enter a space talking about baseball, and in terms of success in baseball, my dad is extraordinarily high up there, so I completely get the assumption or the way that it looks to walk into a room being his daughter. There’s definitely something to prove there, that I earned it and I deserve to be here — and that I worked to be here, and that I worked to stay here.

“The door was not kicked down [for me] and I was not shoved through it,” Gracie emphasized. “And I don’t want it to go unacknowledged that I completely understand that those connections are there and impact those decisions. So, I’m not blind to that. But I think because I’m aware of that, I go in and I really want to prove that I deserve to be here and that they made the right choice in picking me and that it wasn’t just a fluke nepotism thing.”

Gracie explained that her father and mother, Mary, have been “so supportive” of her television career.

“There’s been a lot of times over the years that I’ve been like, ‘Maybe this is just not it … maybe this is the end [of my career],’” she recalled of when she sustained an injury on her vocal cords, which affected her singing abilities. “And every single time, both of my parents have always been like, ‘No, this is not the end. There’s no such thing as the end.’”

Unlike her brother, Gracie didn’t take to playing baseball.

“I played one season of softball in fifth grade and it went horribly,” she said, laughing. “I am currently like five feet tall and 105 pounds, and I was catching. I was our catcher!

“And I would miss the ball, like the pitches. I would just drop them. My poor dad, he came to like every game, he was assistant coaching, and he was probably like, ‘My kid is the worst child on this team by far.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this again,’ and he said, ‘You don’t have to.’ So, he gets to live vicariously through Teddy now.”

Gracie currently splits her time between Chicago, where she lives with her boyfriend — who is also named Brian, “which is sick and twisted” — and New York for work.

The couple plans to move back to New York soon to be closer to her family and job.

Cashman approves, despite his only daughter’s boyfriend being a Chicago Cubs fan.

“I actually think it works out a little bit better that way, because he doesn’t get super starry-eyed [around my dad],” Gracie said. “The one time he did a little was when we surprised my dad for his birthday and the team was playing in Boston.

“Brian and I flew out to surprise my dad for the Boston series, and Anthony Rizzo was in the lobby of our hotel. Brian got a little excited about it because he grew up a Cubs fan.”

Gracie and her father attended the world premiere of “The Story of My Number” at The Paley Museum in New York on Monday, which featured appearances from Boone, Swisher and Martinez.

“The Story of My Number” delves deep into the personal meanings behind the significant numbers in Yankees icons’ careers and lives, with each episode featuring the subject interviewed by Gracie.

Thursday’s debut episode will feature Boone and episodes will be released on subsequent Thursdays.

“It’s really interesting and a nice intersection between the numbers and the entertainment side of things,” Gracie said. “This season, we talked exclusively to Yankees legends about pivotal numbers in their career and pivotal numbers in their personal lives. We kind of used the number as a home base to start the conversation about something else that was really a personal moment or a big career moment.

“It’s a different kind of show than I’ve ever seen, not only that I’ve ever worked on, but that I’ve ever seen done. I mean, the lineup for the interviewees that we got is nuts.”

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