Jorge Posada
Jorge Posada
Jorge Rafael Posada Villetais a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees. Posada produced strong offensive numbers for his position, recording a .273 batting average, 275 home runs, and 1,065 runs batted induring his career. A switch hitter, Posada was a five-time All-Star, won five Silver Slugger Awards, and was on the roster for five World Series championship teams...
NationalityPuerto Rican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth17 August 1971
expect given left life name people pitch small
Chacon was given a new life when he left Colorado, and he was able to come in under the radar. He's not a big, big name -- just like Small -- so people didn't expect them to do this well. They're not panicking, they know how to pitch and that's what they're doing.
chance people quick throw
Chacon is very quick to the plate, ... And if you give me a chance to throw some people out, I'm going to throw some people out.
joe leader people respect team
When people come here, there's Joe Torre and there's Derek Jeter. You have to respect who the leader of the team is, and here it's Derek Jeter.
bases chance good guys people run throw
You've got to keep those guys who run off the bases and then see what happens, ... If we get a good chance to throw people out, we're going to throw people out.
wife people might
What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.
biggest
I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.
ball home knows liked pitcher strike
I liked what I saw. He just got a ball up (in the strike zone) on the home run. I know what he can do. He's a ground-ball pitcher and he knows he's got to keep the ball down to be successful.
ahead love ourselves uniform
It's something we can't get ahead of ourselves on. There's things you can't control, but I want to. I'm a Yankee. I love to put that uniform on.
changes view
It was not a pretty view from my angle. The way he was pitching, the things he was doing, when he comes out of the game, it really changes everything around.
It's a new season. Right now everybody's hot.
You don't know what he's going to do, ... He's tough. You have to give him a lot of respect.
best
You go for the best pitcher. He's been the best pitcher.
cost field mistakes ready
There's not much we can do, ... We lost, we made some mistakes in the field that cost us the game. Now we've got to be ready (Sunday).
front
There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.