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Jorge Posada Retiring

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FFS, about time!
When you're an athlete with a lot of confidence in yourself, it's really hard to walk away from the limelight (not to say the $). Only an idiot would have quit last year with the contract that Hank gave him. Great decision to retire as a Yankee and not try to hang on with another team. I remember feeling really sad when Mantle, my childhood idol, couldn't walk away and let his career average slip below .300
 

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Awful catcher whos seemed to start out horrid, got pretty decent and then plummeted back to horrendous. Underrated bat.

Glad to see he retired as a Yankee.
 
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Just another reminder how lucky we've been as Yankee fans these past couple of decades. Soon it will be Jeter & Mo joining Jorge in retirement. I'm sure the Yankees will re-load, but these core guys have been around so long, that they'll be hard to replace. I saw this clip of Peter Gammons discussing Jorge's chances at making it to Cooperstown (http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=&topic_id=26446990&c_id=nyy&tcid=vpp_copy_&v=3). The numbers look a lot better when you look at them relative to other catchers.
 
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