Posada: Return To Yankees 'Not Gonna Happen'

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:realgm

Jorge Posada hasn't decided his baseball future, but says that he won't be returning to the Yankees.

"It's not gonna happen," Posada said. "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 and that five or six teams have shown interest in his services.

"I will always be a Yankee. The New York Yankees, for me, is my second family," Posada said. "It'd be tough to put on another uniform for real and learn a new set of rules. But it's one of those things where I have to see if I wanna keep playing."

"At the end of the day, it's a business," he added. "You look back and you wish there were some things that could've gone differently, but they didn't. Everything happened for a reason. I'm not bitter at the Yankees. I'm not bitter at (manager) Joe Girardi. I'm not bitter at (general manager) Brian Cashman. It just happens."

Posada, 40, hopes to make up his mind early next year, which will give him ample time to get ready for spring training.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

every story has to end sometime.

 

[Elite]

Gonna really miss Posada. Great catchers are so hard to come by and we had the luxury of having him for the past 16 years and I couldn't be any more grateful. Jorge was such an awesome player and the clubhouse and the fan-base will certainly miss him. Hope the bleacher creatures or somebody does something to honor him during the first home game next year.

 

[NV]

If he doesn't retire he's a fool.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Gonna really miss Posada. Great catchers are so hard to come by and we had the luxury of having him for the past 16 years and I couldn't be any more grateful. Jorge was such an awesome player and the clubhouse and the fan-base will certainly miss him. Hope the bleacher creatures or somebody does something to honor him during the first home game next year.

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