Why isnt jorge posada catching

Because Posada did not contribute in any meaningful way in and made absolutely no contribution in the post season. Stop all the talk about "The Core Four" and let's correct history. Posada has only earned four World Series titles. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Everyone was tired, but I still felt good because I had put my body through intense workouts during the off-season.

I would just ride the bike and stretch, letting my body catch up and recover. Once those three weeks were over, I would go through a brutal three-week period of lifting and sprinting on the track.

Every three weeks I would switch up my workout and do something completely different. Everything I did was to enable me to crouch behind home plate for nine innings and experience the greatest feeling in baseball — even better than hitting a home run:.

Full count. Bases loaded. Two outs. You catch the last strike. You run to the mound to celebrate with your pitcher. Every sign I put down that day, he went right along with me.

He probably shook me off four times at the most. I know David claims he was pitching with a big hangover that day, so maybe that had something to do with it. As the game went on the crowd was getting really loud. I was nervous. Nobody was talking to me or David when we were in the dugout. In the seventh, Paul Molitor came up to the plate with two outs. He always hit David pretty well. We fell behind in the count 3 and 1. We had been pitching Molitor the cutter inside all day.

So I called something down and away and David threw a great strike. As Molitor put his foot down to stride when the pitch was coming in, I noticed his hips were open like he was expecting something inside.

I could just feel it. I put the sign down. Same pitch. Same location. He wants it inside. Keep it simple. David threw it, and I felt the glove pop.

The crowd exploded. We got him. The last batter in the ninth inning was Pat Mears. I was so nervous that when Mears popped up to right field, I threw off my mask and started running to the outfield like I was going to field the ball myself. Everything I did offensively was a plus, a bonus. The real reward was how I could influence the game defensively. Either way, that team was two games shy of becoming one of just four teams to win back-to-back pennants in the past 20 seasons.

Maybe Damon had his own version of Michael's Secret Stuff. Hearing Posada whine like this makes me sad. I loved watching Posada in his prime. He was always a home run threat, he was a menace from both sides of the plate, and there was no doubting that he was a respected clubhouse leader who seemed to always play hard.

The dude could rake. Unfortunately, he has not put himself in a good light the past few years at all, and slamming Girardi for a decision that was in the team's best interests is just silly. Bernie Williams wasn't happy with the way he and the Yankees parted ways, but he never released any tell-all books slamming Cashman. Neither did Don Mattingly when the Yankees strongly encouraged him to retire following the '95 season so that they could improve at first base with a guy like Tino Martinez available.

The high road involves swallowing some pride, but such is life. Posada wasn't a legitimate catcher at age End of story. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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You might not want to replicate his regimen at home, however. The Yankees catcher would use urine to toughen up his skin.