Announced this morning, not that we didn't already suspect this. Reported by Olney and others. The end of an era.
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Tex will retire at end of season
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Fangraphs puts the value they got out of his $180MM contract at $93.9MM (and falling). What a disaster of a contract, and I'm glad the Red Sox whiffed on that one.
Is this the last year of his contract or does retiring allow the Yankees to get from under his last year(s)?
Tony Mazz must be devastated.
Tony Mazz must be devastated.
I have it at $126.6M, you forgot to include his first season in NY, 2009.
Injuries obviously killed a lot of his value in recent years, it's a shame to see him fall off so quickly as he is only 36 and talked about playing 5 more years this spring, plus he was playing like a MVP last year before getting hurt yet again.
Last year of his deal, and he is retiring because he doesn't want to try to play anywhere else, and it's increasingly clear (to him) that NY doesn't want him back.
Whoops. I plugged it into Excel and ignored the first row because it had copied 2008, but now that I look again it didn't copy the full row and I was ignoring 2009. My bad.
I absolutely 100% can not fathom he has been with the Yankees for 8 seasons. That just doesn't register.
Well, PAs isn't really as fair to use as ABs (153) there, but he was definitely pretty bad in most of the postseason series he played in.
He was second in the MVP voting in 2009, though, and helped put them in good position for CC and A-Rod to carry them in the postseason.
It's kind of amazing how well Cashman's 2008 - 2009 offseason worked out for them that year. He was openly admitting to the press at the time how desperate the team was and that they just opened the checkbook to grab Tex, CC and AJB. All of them did exactly what was hoped for of them in 2009 and pretty much nothing more – Tex was a solid top ten MVP candidate that year, CC was very good if not brilliant (but stout in the postseason) and AJ did a really good job for them that season before falling off a cliff in pinstripes. None of them outperformed expectations in 2009 or lived up to their contracts over the long haul (CC's of course was extended). But I can't imagine a single Yankee fan would regret it given the results of the season.
Edit: Well, apparently he was the runner up in 2009. My memory of Tex that year was that he was very good but not a beast.
Edit: Well, apparently he was the runner up in 2009. My memory of Tex that year was that he was very good but not a beast.
Why does every player get an "era"? Was Teixeira really so dominant for such a long period of time that he's one of the of the first players you think about during his playing days?
He had a really fine career. But an era?
His "era" might be "the one where the Yankees won their last WS for awhile."
Like the Tom Tresh era.
The MFY acquisitions of Teix and A-Rod were such kicks in the nads when they happened. If someone had told me at the ttimes that either, never mind both, would be such relative busts, I would have thought they were smoking crack.
What was impressive about CC in the 2009 postseason was that he pitched on 3 days rest a couple of times, which almost no one is capable of doing well, even the top aces. This was essential, as NY would have had a huge dropoff to a 4th starter, but with the offdays and CC's ability to go on 3 days rest when needed, they got through it.
Was just reminded too of his whole thing with the Red Sox scout (or was it Duquette himself?) and Teixeira claiming he cursed in front of his Paw so he wouldnt sign. I used to call him Virgin Ears.
The guy is such a dweeb.
The guy is such a dweeb.
It wasn't DD. The scout was trying to lowball Tex by (essentially) saying he wasn't that great and he should take whatever the Sox offer him.
He's almost certainly not a Hall of Famer, he's kind of similar to Mattingly in that they were both Hall of Fame-level talents whose careers were cut short by injury/ies, and thus they came up short of HoF numbers.
Katie Sharp @ktsharp 5m5 minutes ago
1st baseman w/ 8 straight seasons of 30+ HR and 100+ RBI:
Mark Teixeira
Lou Gehrig
Jimmie Foxx
Katie Sharp @ktsharp 5m5 minutes ago
1st baseman w/ 8 straight seasons of 30+ HR and 100+ RBI:
Mark Teixeira
Lou Gehrig
Jimmie Foxx
Which inspired this really wonderful "headline" on another board:
Mark Teixeira breaks down during retirement press conference
Ahh ok, not DD, thank you for that. Yeah, it was all over money (he essentially said to teams "I'm a first rounder or its Ga Tech for me," iirc) but making it about the Red Sox guy cursing at them has always struck me as funny.
Only three players have hit 500 HR and 600 doubles. Hank, Barry and Papi. How you doing?
Just kidding. Wish the Red Sox had signed him out of HS. The DD regime didn't have the interpersonal skills that the Theo regime had.
Just kidding. Wish the Red Sox had signed him out of HS. The DD regime didn't have the interpersonal skills that the Theo regime had.
I don't think he is a HOF player either, but I did hear he has a higher career WAR than some players in the HOF. Thus, an argument could be made. . . .
To make the HOF, I thought he needed to stick around another few years to pad his stats--get to 500 HR, but maybe he doesn't have enough left in the tank to reach that milestone.
To make the HOF, I thought he needed to stick around another few years to pad his stats--get to 500 HR, but maybe he doesn't have enough left in the tank to reach that milestone.