Word: posada
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...Rangers went 71-91 in 2003 and finished 25 games out of first. Meanwhile, of the four players who finished directly behind A-Rod—Carlos Delgado, Jorge Posada, Shannon Stewart and David Ortiz—three directly contributed to their teams making the playoffs. The fourth (Delgado) played on a third-place team which, although the Bluejays faded down the stretch, contended far longer than the Rangers...
...there was no Barry Bonds or Albert Pujols this season. We’re left with A-Rod and Carlos Delgado, the two “statistical” MVPs, and a bunch of feel good, fuzzy stories—like David Ortiz, Jorge Posada and Shannon Stewart—who had nice seasons but who only garnered consideration because their teams...
...foul weekend to be in Boston. Jorge Posada ensured that with his fluky bloop double in the bottom of the eighth on Thursday night. Sure, history will record that Aaron Boone won Game Seven of the American League Championship Series in the bottom of the 11th inning with a walk-off homerun, but after Posada tied the game up, a Yankee win was as inevitable as it was miserable. And I’m sorry to say it was all my fault...
...themselves far more than the Red Sox could beat them) whose payroll is less than half that of the Sox. The Sox have the second highest payroll in the American League. And unlike the Yankees, whose core is made up of players developed through their own system (Williams, Jeter, Posada, Rivera, and Pettitte) or acquired in shrewd trades (like the pitcher in the “twilight of his career”), the Red Sox are made up almost entirely of free agents, like Manny, Ortiz, Millar, and Walker, or players picked up in fire sales, like Pedro Martinez...
Carrasco, despite his disappointment at not having felled the mighty cactus, said the event successfully captured the essence of the posada as “a religious tradition that generates a sense of community...