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Cashman: No new contracts for Jeter, Rivera, Girardi

When Brian Cashman looks at Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Joe Girardi, the Yankees GM paints his shortstop, closer and manager with the same brush.

And with spring training opening next week in Tampa, Cashman has no plans to stray from his plan of not negotiating with them. All three contracts are in the final year.

“I don’t think you can separate one from the other,” Cashman explained. “I am not saying they are the same, but the questions will come, ‘If you did one, why didn’t you do the other?’ If this was Kansas City, it would be different — but it’s not.”

Cashman doesn’t fear Girardi’s lame-duck status will become a distraction for the players when the annual slide surfaces and voices call for Girardi’s head even though he led the Yankees to a major-league best 103 wins and a World Series title last season.

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Remember, Joe Torre wanted a two-year deal in order to keep the media off the players about his job status. When he didn’t get it, Torre turned down a one-year offer following the 2007 season. Girardi was hired for three years and $7.5 million.

“It doesn’t make any difference,” Cashman said. “[The media] brought his job [security] up when he had two years left on the contract in [2008]. It doesn’t matter. You can have a contract for 10 years and it doesn’t matter.”

Girardi echoes Cashman.

“I am not concerned and I don’t think it will be a distraction,” Girardi said. “I am fortunate to be a Yankee.”

According to Fernando Cuza, Rivera’s agent, his client hasn’t pushed him to talk to the Yankees about an extension. Casey Close, Jeter’s representative, didn’t return a call. However, it’s not like Jeter to push the issue.

Rivera, 40, is entering the final season of a three-year deal worth $45 million and coming off a year in which he saved 44 games in 46 chances, posted a 1.76 ERA and hiked his all-time postseason save record to 39 with five in nine games. His 11 World Series saves (two this past year) are the most in history.

Jeter, who will be 36 in June, is in the final leg of a 10-year deal worth $189 million. He will earn $21 million this season after batting .334, scoring 107 runs, collecting 212 hits, finishing third in the MVP race, copping his fourth Gold Glove and making the All-Star team for the 10th time. And he passed Lou Gehrig on the all-time Yankees hit list.

While it’s almost impossible to think Rivera and Jeter will ever wear another uniform, they likely won’t accept pay cuts.

Rivera could take it year to year, but Jeter, who with 2,747 hits has an outside chance at 4,000, will be looking for multiple years. Some believe he should make at least what Alex Rodriguez earns a year ($27.5 million).

“Everybody signed those contracts and there is a lot of money being made and people are comfortable,” said Cashman, who is signed through 2011 and never lobbied for an extension when he was in the final year of a deal.

george.king@nypost.com