Former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada is sick of seeing the Bronx Bombers look soft as the American League’s wild card field continues to catch up to the slumping pinstripes in the standings.
Posada assessed the Yanks’ problems this season during the franchise’s Old Timers game on Saturday:
The team isn’t tough and has the kind of indifferent attitude befitting a team with a losing record since June 1.
“It’s more of an attitude than anything. They just gotta get a little angry, hopefully a fight or something that happens, not a fight but something that happens to get them going… They need to have that chip on their shoulder. You’ve gotta play like that. You can’t be friends with everybody,” Posada told SNY.
Posada isn’t throwing daggers for no reason. If one of the “Core Four” Yankees is sounding the alarm on the clubhouse’s attitude, he’s not doing it to show off his best Statler and Waldorf impersonations.
It’s put up or shut up for Boone. Now, Posada is putting himself in a put up or shut up situation. And it’s not by accident.
Fans have been advocating for the four-time World Series champion, someone who was battery mates with Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, and David Wells in their primes, to replace Boone. Though his post-playing career in the MLB has limited experience, Posada’s work in Derek Jeter’s Miami Marlins organization as a special advisor is a sign he has an appetite to remain around the game.
What better way to be around baseball than managing the franchise whose losses you still take personally?
