Former New York Yankees star catcher Jorge Posada revealed that he doesn’t feel like the organization wants him around anymore.<\/p>\n
“I don’t feel welcome when I go there, you know? Even in spring training, I don’t feel like \u2014 I’m just like, I don’t know, like, I don’t feel welcome,” Posada said during a Tuesday appearance on The Show podcast (h\/t Matt Ehalt<\/a> of the New York Post). “I don’t feel like they want me there, so I don’t go.”<\/p>\n “I don’t know what happened. I’d rather just move forward,” he added. “My last season of my career was a really tough one when it comes to handling everything in my part and also the Yankees toward Jorge Posada. So, it’s tough to go back and feel that again.”<\/p>\n Posada spent his entire playing career on the Yankees from 1995 through 2011, helping them capture four World Series titles.<\/p>\n He earned five All-Star nods and six Silver Slugger Awards throughout his career in New York.<\/p>\n Posada sits at No. 9 on the Yankees’ all-time home runs leaderboard<\/a> while also holding the No. 14 spot on their all-time hits list.<\/p>\n It’s worth noting that his final season in New York didn’t go smoothly, as he primarily operated as a designated hitter instead of a catcher for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n Still, the Yankees retired Posada’s No. 20 in a ceremony in Aug. 2015.<\/p>\n He was also in attendance<\/a> for New York’s spring training ahead of the 2025 season before appearing<\/a> at the club’s Old Timers’ Day this year.<\/p>\n It’s unknown what caused Posada to feel unwelcome around the Yankees, although he previously explained that the team’s mentality needed to change in Aug. 2025.<\/p>\n “It’s just more of an attitude than anything,” Posada told SNY’s Chelsea Sherrod at the time. “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 again.”<\/p>\n “They need to have that chip on their shoulder,” he added. “You’ve gotta play like that. You can’t be friends with everybody.”<\/p>\n The Yankees are coming off a 2026 campaign in which they finished with a 93-68 record, but were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Yankees star catcher Jorge Posada revealed that he doesn’t feel like the organization wants him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-943250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}