This new Derek Jeter commercial is set to air tonight during the MLB All-Star Game tonight. Much like last year’s Rivera tribute, tonight will be more like a “Derek Jeter Special” than an all-star game. All eyes on Derek.
Posts Tagged ‘Jorge Posada’
RE2PECT Jeter Nike Commercial: The World Tips Their Hat To Derek Jeter
Posted in Yankee News, Yankee Players, Yankees Community, Yankees Media, Yankees Miscellaneous, Yankees Videos, tagged Air Jordan, Andy Pettitte, Billy Crystal, Bob Sheppard, Carmelo Anthony, Derek Jeter, FDNY, Jay-Z, Joe Torre, Jon Lester, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Michael Jordan, Mr. Met, New Tork Mets, New York City, New York Yankees, Nike, NYPD, Phil Jackson, RE2PECT, Red Sox Nation, Rudy Guiliani, Spike Lee, Tiger Woods, Tino Martinez, Tip Your Captain, Yankee Stadium, Yankees fans, Yankees Universe on July 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Hanukkah came early this year. McCann to the Yankees for 5 Years/$85 Million
Posted in Breaking News, Yankees Miscellaneous, Yankees Organization, Yankees Transactions, tagged $85 Million, Atlanta Braves, Brian McCann, Bronx, Catcher, Chris Stewart, Francisco Cervelli, Free Agent, Jorge Posada, New York, Option on November 23, 2013| 1 Comment »
Brian McCann
Sign on the dotted line! Brian McCann is headed to the Bronx for $85 million over 5 years. His contract will include a 6th year option, bringing the grand total to $100M if he so chooses.
Don’t worry Yankees fans. You’ll no longer have to worry about whether Chris Stewart or Francisco Cervelli will be starting behind the plate. McCann will be the first offensive force behind the dish since Posada left the team back in 2011.
Joel Sherman: Andy Pettitte to announce retirement this afternoon
Posted in Breaking News, Yankee News, Yankee Players, Yankees Rumors, tagged Andy Pettitte, Breaking News, Core Four, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees, Retirement on September 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
have not confirmed 100 pct, but getting lot of buzz Andy Pettitte will announce his retirement this afternoon. Will keep u posted #Yankees
This isn’t shocking news, but Joel Sherman is now reporting that Pettitte will hang it up at the end of the season. If true, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte will all be gone. Leaving Derek Jeter as the last man standing of the Yankees Core Four. This is a sad day indeed.
Update: 11:08AM ET (Via Jon Heyman):
can confirm pettitte will announce his retirement. likely by early this afternoon. #yankees
Update: 12:15PM ET:
The YES Network just released a statement by Andy Pettitte:
Andy Pettitte
Jorge Posada | My Label is Black
Posted in Yankees Media, Yankees Miscellaneous, Yankees Videos, tagged Commercial, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Jorge Posada, My Label is Black, New York Yankees, Please Drink Responsibly, Yankee Stadium on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Yankees Backstops
Posted in Baseball Statistics, Yankee Players, Yankees History, Yankees Miscellaneous, tagged All-Star, Backstop, Bill Dickey, Boston, Captain, Catcher, Elston Howard, Hall of Fame, Jorge Posada, Mets, Most Valuable Player, New York Yankees, Rookie of the Year, Thurman Munson, World Series Rings, Yogi Berra on January 30, 2012| 4 Comments »
Jorge Posada’s retirement got me looking at the Yankees all-time catcher’s statistics. One thing that stands out in particular is Posada’s on base percentage, which is second only to Bill Dickey, which is 101 points above his career average. Also, each of these catchers played their entire career with the Yanks except a few at-bats for Berra with the Mets and Howard’s last two seasons were with Boston.
Accolades of Note:
All of them have their number retired with the Yankees.
Yogi Berra: 10 WS rings, 3 time MVP, HOF and did it all while standing 5’7” tall
Jorge Posada: 5 WS rings, 5 time All-Star
Bill Dickey: 7 WS rings, 11 time All-Star
Elston Howard: 1st African American player on NYY, 1963 MVP, 9 time All-Star, 4 WS rings
Thurman Munson: Captain, 2 WS rings, 1973 ROY, 1976 MVP
Posada Officially Announces Retirement: “I will forever be a Yankee.”
Posted in Yankee News, Yankee Players, Yankee Stadium, Yankees Media, Yankees Memories, Yankees Miscellaneous, Yankees Organization, Yankees Videos, Yankees: Off the field, YES Network, tagged Catcher, I will forever be a Yankee, Jorge Posada, New York Yankees, Press Conference, Retirement, YES Network on January 27, 2012| 3 Comments »
Jorge Posada’s retirement press conference was quite emotionally stirring. It’s not often a player wears one uniform for their entire career. Posada put up phenomenal numbers in the most demanding position on the field and served as a great vocal leader for the franchise. He wore his heart on his sleeve and will rank with some of the greats to ever put on the Yankee pinstripes.
Posada stated that he grew up in front of the fans. The said can be said about myself. When Posada got the call up in 1995, I was 4 years-old. Seventeen years later, Posada is hanging ’em up and here stands a 20 year-old Yankees fan. It’s hard to believe.
“Playing for the Yankees has been an honor — I could never have worn another uniform,” Posada said. (more…)
Montero to make MLB debut tonight in Beantown
Posted in Yankee News, Yankee Players, Yankees Management, Yankees Outlook, Yankees Prospects, tagged Boston Red Sox, Call-up, Jesus Montero, Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, MLB debut, New York Yankees, September, Yankees Prospects on September 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The long-awaited September call-up of top Yankees hitting prospect, Jesus Montero has finally come. Joe Girardi has slotted him in the lineup tonight against Boston Red Sox as the designated hitter. It’s will be interesting to see Jorge Posada’s reaction to being pulled off the playoff roster if Montero puts on a clinic this September.
Montero will be donning the No. 63 on his uniform.
Jorge Posada, Great 2b or Greatest 2b?
Posted in Yankee News, Yankee Players, Yankees History, Yankees Humor, tagged 1990, 1991, 2B, Catcher, Grand Slam, Jorge Posada, New York Yankees, Second Base on August 26, 2011| 3 Comments »
During last night’s Yankee game history was made. No, I’m not talking about being the first team to hit 3 grand slams in a game. I’m talking about Jorge Posada’s first appearance at second base in his major league career.
Posada played second base in the minors in 1990 and then moved to catcher in 1991.
“That [throw] shows you right there exactly why they moved me behind the plate . . . I threw it too hard. I got super excited.” -Posada
Video: Posada at 2b: (Compliments of MLB.com)
Half way home
Posted in Yankee Players, Yankees Opinion, Yankees Outlook, tagged AJ Burnett, Bartolo Colon, Brian Gordon, CC Sabathia, Curtis Granderson, Derek Jeter, Freddy Garcia, Ivan Nova, Joba Chamberlain, Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, Mark Teixeira, Nick Swisher, Pedro Feliciano, Phil Hughes, Robinson Cano on June 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
As I’m writing this, the Yankees are in first place, 2 ½ games ahead of the hated Red Sox.
Stop to think about that for a second. Despite all of the injuries and preseason prognostications calling Boston the greatest team since the ’27 Yanks, It’s the Yankees who have the best record in the league. So much for predicting baseball, eh?
So how did we get here? And what about the next 84 games – can they keep it up?
CC and the 7 Dwarves
The starting rotation, if unspectacular, has been steady. That CC Sabathia (10-4, 3.25 ERA) would turn in a typical ace-like season was not in much doubt. But when Phil Hughes broke camp without a fastball or command, an already shaky rotation seemed destined for trouble. Instead, AJ Burnett (8-6, 4.05) has seemingly put last season’s demons on hold, Freddy Garcia (7-6, 3.28) keeps junkballing his way to wins, Ivan Nova (7-4,4.26) has gotten progressively better as the season has moved into the summer and Bartolo Colon (5-3, 3.10) found the fountain of youth. Even journeyman Brian Gordon has turned in a couple of credible starts. With Hughes and Colon due back from the disabled list within the next week, the Yanks still may not have a “name” #2 guy, but the team won’t suffer from a lack of credible rotation options in the second half.
Mo and the other 7 Dwarves
At the beginning of the year, the bullpen was supposed to be the best in baseball. And it started out that way. But Pedro Feliciano was injured before camp even opened. Then Rafael Soriano (1-1, 5.40) followed up an erratic first month by hurting his elbow. Joba Chamberlain (2-0, 2.83) needed Tommy John surgery. Suddenly, a lock-down bullpen had holes everywhere except closer, where the ageless Mariano Rivera (1-1, 1.72, 21 SV) remains incomparable. Stepping into the breach has been Houdini’s reincarnation, David Robertson (1-0, 1.11) and a bunch of guys that barely earned a mention in the media guide: Hector Noesi, Luis Ayala, Buddy Carlysle, Lance Pendleton, Cory Wade, Jeff Marquez, Kevin Whelan, Amauri Sanit. Even the much-maligned Boone Logan has managed to become effective lately. Here, too, reinforcements are on the way, as Soriano looks to be ready by mid-July. And just to add to the laugh factor, yesterday the Yankees re-acquired Sergio Mitre.
The EVIL Home Run
Call it a sign of baseball experts not being as expert as they thought. A common refrain is that the Yankees hit too many home runs. Maybe I’m thin-skinned, but I take it to mean that the Yankees “cheat” because they do what they do best: hit home runs. They lead the majors in homers (115), runs scored (416) and OPS (.793). If the rest of baseball is jealous simply because the Yankees sport an offense that means they’re never out of a game, let them eat (AJ) pie. Oh, and for all of those NL “small ball” types: the Yanks are third in steals, with 71.
What probably scares the bejeezus out of the rest of baseball is that as good as the offense has been, it hasn’t really clicked on all cylinders yet – even though it’s beginning to heat up. While Curtis Granderson (.276, 21, 56, along with a ML leading 70 runs) is having an MVP type year and Mark Teixeira leads the majors with 24 homers, Nick Swisher (.250, 10, 43) and Jorge Posada (.240, 9, 27) have just started to hit over the past couple of weeks. Derek Jeter (.260, 2, 20) was playing old before his injury and Alex Rodriguez (.299, 13, 51) still hasn’t recovered his power stroke. Robbie Cano (.289, 14, 49) is hitting 30 points under last season.
The Manager
I’ve never been a fan of Joe Girardi. I probably never will be. But I have to give credit where it’s due and this season, Girardi deserves mention for Manager of the Year. He has stumbled a couple of times, but for the most part he has managed to string together enough oddball pieces to keep this team playing better than the sum of its parts.
Joe Must Go!
Posted in Yankee Players, Yankees Management, Yankees Opinion, tagged Derek Jeter, Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, Rafael Soriano, Yankee losing streak, Yankees Manager on May 17, 2011| 12 Comments »
Anyone who has spent any time at all this season watching our beloved Yankees realized something was amiss. From the first series of the year, parts of the team failed to click. The problem was, nobody could put their finger on it and they were still winning, so what the hell, right?
Over the last two weeks, that nagging voice in the backs of our heads has become a full roar, overwhelming everything else in our baseball-related worlds. Six straight losses and 10 of 13. The problem is obvious, if you just step back for a moment. This is not a team; it is a collection of talented players, each one looking out for their own interests. Placing their own (often inflated) egos ahead of the group. Three incidents particularly point up the lack of leadership and chemistry.
- The Jorge Posada situation: Once upon a time, Jorge Posada wouldn’t have dreamed of throwing the type of temper-tantrum we witnessed on Saturday, especially against the Red Sox. Any player trying that would have been faced down by his teammates long before reaching the manager’s office – and Posada would have been the one leading the charge. Posada, as much as I love all he meant to past Yankee glories, quit on the team before one of the biggest games of the year. All over the perceived injustice of hitting 9th – even though his .165 batting average is dead last in the majors. Screw the team; just give me my at-bats with RISP so I can keep striking out.
- The Derek Jeter incident: The day after Posada opted out of the line-up, Jeter offered a defense of Posada instead of calling him out. I don’t mean in the press – that would have been the wrong way to go about it, and Jeter’s pretty bland answers were the right move there. I mean in front of the team. Jeter, the ostensible captain of this forlorn bunch, should have stepped up and let it be known that if anyone else wanted to quit, they needed to go through him first. Instead, he did nothing until called out by management.
- Post-game yesterday: All the reports I’ve read this morning regarding the post-game clubhouse yesterday show a clubhouse in dangerous need of repair. Rafael Soriano offered this tidy bit of analysis – “To me, I don’t think (the) bullpen (is) the problem. I think it (is) the hitters.” So, a relief pitcher who thus far has made 16 rather ineffective appearances (5.40 ERA, 76 ERA+) and now heads for the DL, is offering up half the team as sacrificial lambs.
If that isn’t evidence enough, then simply watch the results. This team is obviously distracted by something. The mental errors are staggering and affecting every facet of the game. The talent is as good as any team in either league, yet the Yankees sport the seventh best record in the AL.
I’ve read plenty of articles recommending minor tweaks – calling up a couple of minor leaguers, shifting the line-up and the like. But for any of those moves to have a snowball’s chance of working, the team needs to believe and trust in the manager. Joe Girardi, for whatever reason (maybe because he’s a clubhouse mouthpiece for the front office?), does not have that confidence from his players.
Yes, the team needs a shake-up. There are few situations in which replacing the manager is actually the correct move. Managers generally get fired because they have bad teams that not even Casey Stengel could turn into winners. But, when the manager loses the clubhouse, when he no longer effectively leads the team, then firing the manager is not only the correct response.
It is the only response.
Yankees – Red Sox: FIGHT!
Posted in Series Preview, Yankees Memories, Yankees Photos, Yankees vs. Red Sox, tagged Bill Lee, Carlton Fisk, Don Zimmer, Graig Nettles, Jason Varitek, Jorge Posada, Lou Piniella, Mickey Rivers, Mike Lowell, Pedro Martinez, Robinson Cano, Thurman Munson on May 13, 2011| 3 Comments »
Walking down memory lane: The Yankees and Red Sox meet tonight in sport’s most heated rivalry. Sometimes, things get a little overheated…
Hey Bartender, Jobu needs a refill!
Posted in Yankee Players, Yankees Opinion, tagged Alex Rodriguez, Brett Gardner, Derek Jeter, Jobu, Jorge Posada, Major League, Mike Axisa, Nick Swisher on May 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Have the Yankees upset Jobu? If last night’s game is an indicator, than maybe they have.
The other day I posted about the Yankees all-or-nothing offense and pointed out who I think are the three main culprits behind the inconsistency: Derek Jeter, Brett Gardner and Jorge Posada. As I mentioned, I’m not so worried about Jeter and Gardner is fine in the 9th spot in the order. However, Posada is positively killing the team right now. Mike Axisa at RAB also has a piece on Posada’s horrible season thus far.
Since that article posted, I’ve received numerous comments through Facebook
and Twitter
about other Yankee sluggers who haven’t done the job lately. Their lack of production is, as far as I can tell, more due to messed up mechanics than anything else. Has Alex Rodriguez slumped terribly over the past ten games? Sure – and if you watch his at-bats, you notice his head flying open before the bat head on breaking balls. Nick Swisher? From the left-hand side, Nick is holding his bat lower and diving into the plate too much; he can’t get decent wood on anything on the inner half.
The point is, every major leaguer in history has had slumps. 98% of them make their peace with Jobu and resume hitting. The rest end up behind the counter at your local Wendy’s.
I strongly suspect that the Yankees principle culprit is plain old exhaustion. They’re in the middle of a stretch where they will play 32 games in 33 days. That kind of grind will take its toll on anyone. Which brings up a point not totally off kilter that I’ll expand on in a later post, the decline in offense generally (overall AL OPS is at .714, 20 points lower than last season and 62 points lower than in 2006). I personally think it has to do with two things: the number and quality of pitchers each team carries –and the number of quality reserves on each team’s bench. Stay tuned…
-
The Authors
Zell’s Panel
Categories
Archives
-
Blog Stats
- 711,726 hits
M. B. Rozell
Kevin Rozell
