Thursday, November 10, 2011
TGS NY: Jorge Posada: Return won’t happen
“It’s not gonna happen,” Posada said Wednesday night at a Manhattan function for The Jorge Posada Foundation. “I don’t think there is even a percentage of a chance that I can come back.”
The free agent says he’s not bitter with the organization he has played for his entire career. He said five or six teams have shown interest in his services.
The more I think about it, the less I’d mind if Posada tried to play another year and got a job somewhere. It won’t take away what he did in pinstripes, and it allows him a chance to go out on his terms. I think he’s still got something left, and if circumstances allowed it, it’d be great to see him get one more game at the Stadium, even if it came in a visitor’s uniform. Perhaps there will be real fans in attendance instead of the stuffed suits that attended ALDS Game 5 and ignored the fact that it was likely Posada’s last game in pinstripes.
On an unrelated note, scary news out of Venezuela, where Nationals’ catcher Wilson Ramos has been kidnapped. There have been a few kidnapping related incidents involving MLB players’ families including Henry Blanco’s brother, Yorvit Torrealba’s son and Victor Zambrano’s mother. Let’s hope for a happy ending here.
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