Last week was not the week that Jorge Posada officially ended his career with the Yankees, but it was certainly the week that he admitted it’s over. “I knew that was my last game after that playoff,” he said at Thursday’s night’s charity event for Joe Torre’s foundation. “That’s why I was so emotional. That’s [...]
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Joe Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation had it’s annual gala tonight at Chelsea Piers. The guest of honor was Paul O’Neill, but the topic of discussion was Jorge Posada. When Torre stopped to answer a few questions, every single one was about his former catcher. Here’s Torre… On how hard it would be for Posada [...]
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It was Jorge Posada who first mentioned Bernie Williams last night. Posada said he’d been talking to Williams a lot this offseason — in fact, the two had talked earlier that day — and Williams was advising patience. He didn’t want Posada rushing to a decision, one way or the other, about whether to play [...]
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Jorge Posada can read the writing on the wall as well as anyone. Brian Cashman has not yet reached out to Posada’s agents this offseason, but Posada doesn’t need a phone call to tell him the Yankees don’t have a spot for him on their roster. “I don’t think there’s even a percentage of a [...]
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We’ll start the day with a few little nuggets leftover from yesterday’s Joe Girardi press conference. We’ll begin with Girardi’s comment on the possibility of Jorge Posada having played his last game with the Yankees. “I can’t tell you exactly what’s going to happen with Jorge,” Girardi said. “But whenever you do say goodbye to [...]
Read More...Jorge Posada’s eyes were a little bit red when he emerged from the off-limits area and stepped in front of his locker. They were worse when he left. Posada’s Yankees career most likely came to a crashing end Thursday night. Make that, almost certainly did. And when he left the clubhouse, you got the idea [...]
Read More...Don’t count Jorge Posada out of the Yankees postseason plans just yet. For most of the past month, Posada was little more than a spectator, but he’s taken advantage of his limited opportunities lately. It’s clear that the Yankees see Jesus Montero as their designated hitter against lefties, but Posada, Montero and Eric Chavez could [...]
Read More...Austin Romine made his second big league start behind the plate this afternoon, and he caught the first eight innings. He was out there when Bartolo Colon struggled, and he was out there when the Yankees bullpen tossed four scoreless innings to bridge the gap to Mariano Rivera. But when Rivera entered in the ninth, [...]
Read More...I’ll have more later, but real quickly… Joe Girardi had a conversation with Jorge Posada this afternoon, telling Posada that the Yankees are going with their best lineup and Posada’s at-bats could diminish. Posada had already fallen into a platoon situation at DH, but it now seems that Girardi prefers to have both Eduardo Nunez [...]
Read More...Rafael Soriano is not listed as an available reliever. Brett Gardner LF Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Mark Teixeira DH Robinson Cano 2B Nick Swisher RF Russell Martin C Jorge Posada 1B Eduardo Nunez 3B The LoHud Yankees Blog
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