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Bits And Pieces
Published 7/23/2008 by attackgerbil at YFSF
... Will Leitch writes in New York Magazine that Jorge Posada is now just another Yankees albatross. GREAT, Part II, by Joe Posnanski is worth a few minutes of your day. Steve Goldman, in Baseball Prospectus: "In the recently concluded A’s series, somehow a sweep for the Yankees, it seemed as if they were being gunned down at home, batter after batter. I was curious if this was real or just an impression." To go along with the reports of interest in Subway Jarrod, George King writes that the Yankees may be interested in ...

Bronx Banter: Coming Around the Bend
Published 7/24/2008 at Baseball Toaster
At New York Magazine, Will Leitch adds his two cents about the ailing Jorge Posada. You think this is bad? Wait until it happens to the team's other nineties icons. Rivera is defying time with another peerless season, but Derek Jeter is in the seventh year of the ten-year contract that makes him the second-highest paid player in baseball (behind A-Rod, of course.) But forget the oft-debated (but still plainly obvious) defensive liability; the "Face of Baseball" is having the worst offensive season of his career. (As much as Posada has struggled, he has still hit better than ...