The New York Yankees re-sign Joe Girardi
The Yankees have re-signed manager Joe Girardi to a 3-year, $9 million dollar deal. Girardi led the Yankees to a 95-67 (58.6%) record during the regular season and they were 5-4 (55.6%) in the playoffs this year. He is now 287-199 (59.1%) during the regular season in three years with the Yankees and he is also 16-8 (66.7%) during the post season. I’m not a big Girardi fan as I think he gets outmanaged quite often. I think the Yankees could have gotten a better manager for the money they spent. After all, look at all the down years that Yankees’ players had in 2010.
UPDATE: (11/19/2010) - Joe Girardi finished 6th in the American League Manager of the Year voting.
Yes, if the Yankees had made it, their presence would have been felt here. Even if they couldn’t get a hold of that many New York Yankees tickets you just know some Yankees fan would roll up to McCovey Cove in his yacht, knocking over the kayaks in its wake and shouting “Hip, hip… Jorge!” over a megaphone.