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Friday, June 3, 2011

Managing the aging super star

It is no secret that the Yankees have an older team, it is also known that manger Joe Giradi (who played with the now core three Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, and Jorge Posada) might have difficulty managing the guys he played with as their careers are coming to an end.  It is well known that Jeter no longer has great range at shortstop but he still gets to most of the balls, hit to him and he can still make that mid air throw to first, he is going to be the shortstop till at least mid season of next year.  Jeter can still hit, not like he used to but he still gets his in field hits batting .264 about 40 points off his career batting average of .313 but all of that being said with in about three weeks he will become the first Yankee with 3,000 hits (16 away).  Now it has been decided the Jorge Posada will not catch any more, but he's not hitting either.  He doesn't have a hit off a left hander all season and is hitting just .169 for the year.  Jorge will not be with the team next year, and if he doesn't start hitting he could be on the trading block at the trade deadline.  It might benefit both him and the Yankees, if Jorge doesn't start hitting to retire, the Yankees will give him a day and a press conference to announce it.  This was all going through Jorge's head when he pulled himself out of the line up against Boston.  Marino Rivera a.k.a the ageless one, hasn't slowed down yet.            

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