Jorge Posada to Retire

By On January 7, 2012 · 8 Comments · In History

According to , Jorge Posada is not going to try to continue his career outside of New York, and will retire after a long an arguably Hall of Fame caliber career.

I’m 24 years old. I became a die-hard baseball fan during the 1998 season,when Jorge Posada received his first real playing time. This means that I quite literally can’t remember a Yankee team without Jorge Posada on the roster. He stuck with his one true team for the entire career, and was productive almost up until the end. He was perennial underrated, receiving MVP votes in only 2007 and 2003, despite being one of the best offensive catchers ever.

I don’t know about all of you, but I’m already anxiously waiting for the Jeter/Posada/Williams/Pettitte/Rivera jersey retirement ceremony. I can’t think of any professional sports franchise that has ever had that kind of event, where such a large group of home grown team legends can be honored at once. The Yankees in many ways have come to symbolize the mercenary era of professional sports, but the truth is the Yankees carry an unmatched team tradition that does much more to define the franchise. Jorge Posada was a huge piece of that. Let’s all be happy that he never put a different uniform on.

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8 Responses to Jorge Posada to Retire

  1. says:
    January 7, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    I doubt they’ll retire everyone’s number. Jeter/Rivera obviously, as first-ballot HOF’ers. Posada, eventually, because he’s got a shot at the HOF. Somehow I doubt Pettitte or Williams ever get their numbers put on ice, however. Great Yankees but not number-retirement worthy, IMHO.

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    • Matt Imbrogno says:
      January 7, 2012 at 5:41 pm

      I think they’re definitely worthy of retirement.

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      • says:
        January 9, 2012 at 10:08 am

        I’m as big a Pettitte fan as there’s ever been on the planet (and I’d include his parents and wife in that list too) but I don’t see how #46 belongs on the wall. He was a great guy, a real easy guy to root for and put up some nice years but if you’re not a Hall of Famer, I don’t think your number should be retired.

        3.98 ERA guys aren’t guys whose numbers I retire but we can certainly agree to disagree.

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  2. Matt says:
    January 7, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    To many numbers retired as is.

    Anyway it was time for him to retire. I wish he would have thought of it during the season and could of had a farewell tour.

    Oh well. He did a lot for the organization.

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    • says:
      January 9, 2012 at 9:42 am

      Agreed. Too many retired numbers.

      Billy Martin? Scooter Rizzuto? And, with all due respect to my favorite player as a child growing up, Don Mattingly?

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  3. Mister D says:
    January 8, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    They will have a celebration, and many, if not all, of those numbers will be retired. But as appropriate as I think it would be to retire them all the same day, I seriously doubt the Yankees would squander the chance to have 5 separate honoring ceremonies, 5 separate days to sell tickets, 5 separate sets of merchandise to move.

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  4. T.O. Chris says:
    January 10, 2012 at 2:49 am

    I’ve never been a big fan of Posada, his attitude always rubbed me the wrong way, and being awful behind the plate didn’t help. He was a very good player however and I’m glad he’s not going to embarress himself by holding on for another season. Though to be honest I think the league kind of came to this conclusion for him, I doubt any team was offering him anymore than a minor league deal with an invite to ST. I’m still not sure Posada is HOF worthy but I’ll cheer him if he makes it.

    At a certain point you have to stop retiring everyones numbers or no one will have any left for the field. I love Bernie and Andy but they shouldn’t retire those numbers.

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