Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Yankees.com: Mailbag: Much depends on Posada
For the moment, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that he is keeping his fingers crossed that Posada will make good on his promise to be wearing a chest protector behind the plate on Opening Day at the new Yankee Stadium. Certainly, that would be the organization’s preference, but though Posada can speak as optimistically as he likes, the Yankees won’t really know how to proceed until Posada’s throwing program begins on Dec. 1.
I’ll be doing a lot of projecting of the 2009 Yankees, but until we know whether or not Jorge Posada can catch full time it’s not very useful. Posada at catcher is a 2.5 - 3 WAR player, and the Yankees don’t have anything close to that should he not be able to catch. Let’s hope for good news in December…
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