Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Looking Ahead to 2010: Jorge Posada
I’m going to start my player projection pieces like I usually do, by looking at Jorge Posada.
It took an injury-plagued 2008 that saw Posada have his worst season as a Yankee for a lot of people to realize just how important he was to the Yankees. Posada’s 2008 injury was the single biggest reason the Yankees missed the postseason. Given his age and the history of catchers in their mid to late 30s, it was a very strong possibility that Posada was at the end of the line, but he came back strong in 2009. In fact, of all the players in MLB who had at least 300 PAs and played 70% of their games at catcher, the only player who out-hit Posada was the second-most valuable player in the AL, Joe Mauer.
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