...I think last night may have just been the beginning of the end. As if we didn't already know that was the title of his 2011 season.
Last night, Posada's back "stiffened up", which coincidentally followed his viewing his place in the batting order. Ninth. Posada has already been struggling with becoming the Yankees' DH this season, and the drop in the lineup was just icing on the cake.
Posada was interviewed after the game, and kept trying to get around what he was quoted on prior to the game: "I needed to clear my head". This clearly got him in trouble the second go-round after the game, where that line kept coming up. Reporters were desperate to find something to help them break a "Posada refuses to play if he is penciled in lower than 7th" story. This season, Posada is batting a dismal .165, more than 100 points lower than his lifetime .273.
From the 2009 to 2010 season, his average dropped from a .283 to a .248. Do we see a trend here?
Not everyone can get as lucky as Jason Varitek. Like Posada, he is at the ripe old age of 39, but conversely, has all of a sudden found himself with a group of Boston pitchers demanding to pitch to him and only him. It's not like Varitek's numbers are much better than Posada's. He's batting .154! But Varitek wasn't the hitter that Posada was to begin with. He's a lifetime .257, with just one season in the .290s. There's a reason why Varitek has never subbed in for Big Papi.
I seem to always write letters to Posada, but I feel strongly about this. Dude, if you want to help out the Yankees, QUIT.
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