New York Yankees icon Jorge Posada, who spent 17 seasons in the Bronx and won four World Series in pinstripes, says he does not feel welcome around the team, and that the feeling has kept him away. In a recent interview on “The Show”, Joel Sherman asked whether the Yankees could use a voice like his on Aaron Boone’s coaching staff.
The episode was published Tuesday. Jorge Posada said,
“I mean, I could, but I don’t think they want me there, to tell you the truth. I don’t feel welcome when I go there. You know, even in spring training, I don’t feel like, you know, I’m just like, like, I don’t know, like, I don’t feel welcome. I don’t feel like they want me there. So I don’t go.”
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“I don’t know, you know, what happened. I’d rather just move forward. My last season of my career was a really tough one, when it comes to handling everything in my part, and also the Yankees, you know, towards Jorge Posada. So it’s tough to, you know, to go back and feel that again.”
Much of the response from fans was directed at the Yankees rather than at Posada, and former teammate Joba Chamberlain wrote on X: “Says a lot coming from him, just saying.”
Posada, 56, did not cite one moment that produced the feeling. He pointed to the end of his playing career in 2011, when the Yankees moved him out of the catcher’s job, started him 90 times at designated hitter and clashed publicly with him over playing time.
“That I never got a chance to fight for my job was the toughest part,” he said at the time. Brian Cashman declined to comment for the Post’s story.
Jorge Posada was careful not to pin the season on Boone or on Cashman, the general manager, saying both are the right people to lead the club and that the players are responsible for how it ended. He suggested the Yankees add a coach who would hold them to a higher standard.
Jorge Posada Breaks Down Yankees’ Postseason Disappointment
New York Yankees legend Jorge Posada watched the 2026 postseason from a distance and expected it to last longer. “They keep coming up short and it’s just about getting hot, being healthy, and all at the right time,” he said during an interview with The New York Post.
He called the pitching “phenomenal” and said losing Aaron Judge from the middle of the order was a significant blow. The players the front office added in trades, he said, amounted to “more of the same.”
“And then you get guys that they got in the trade and I felt like they got more of the same. So it was tough to see it come up short because I thought they were gonna go a little further,” Jorge Posada said.
New York went 93-68, swept the Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card Series, then was swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS, losing Game 3, 4-3, at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 7. The Yankees scored five runs and batted .130 across the three games. Judge, who played 66 games because of a fractured rib and then a right calf strain, was left off the playoff roster.
Posada’s remedy was about standards rather than names. “You didn’t run to first base? Get him out of the game,” he said. “Make him understand that this means something. It’s not a game, it’s really a job, and some guys are not doing their job.”
Boone will return in 2027 for a 10th season, so any change of the kind Posada described would come on his staff. Posada made clear he does not expect to be part of it.
Edited by Kaushani Chatterjee
