"Jorge Posada is scheduled to announce his retirement today at 11 a.m. The press conference is all wrong. It should be to reveal he is coming back to the Yankees for one more season.

So often the instinct is to tell athletes when to retire. Here is one vote to say Posada is retiring too soon.

It feels this was a decision made without all of the pertinent information — namely the trade of Jesus Montero. It also feels — of more consequence — it was made for personality reasons: Namely manager Joe Girardi did not particularly like Posada, and the feeling was mutual."