Nicholas Swisher

Claytons and, you know, they've had a number of those guys.

Even Nick Swisher, you know, he was funny on that.

But anyway, the Cash and Boone Circus continues, they announced.

And then Jorge Posada comes out a couple days ago and says that he doesn't even feel welcome when he goes to spring training.

That's all they're talking about is the culture of the Yankees, and it's not what it should be or what it used to be, this and that.

Not even talking really about analytics, which I'm sure Cashman takes mostly as a shot at him.

But, I mean, what do you make of Posada saying he doesn't feel welcome? And they parade around Nick Swisher, who was there for a year.

Dude, bro, man.

Um, even someone like CC, even someone like Brett Gardner, um, There are guys, even someone like, as much as I would like to say Johnny Damon, that's not doable.

Even someone like, I know it sounds a little bit crazy, but someone like Nick Swisher, he's Probably not someone you'd want as a central figure, but that's like a good flavor to throw in there.

I know he's been present at some Yankee spring trainings as well, but like, I don't know what the consistency is that they need to find.

But someone like Jorge Posada coming out and saying this, just whether he's right or wrong, Because we're never going to know the truth.

I think he met Sue.

He did it 2015 for a little, I mean, obviously Nick Swisher has been doing this.

I'm trying to find like other guys that have like, even like spring training guest instructors.

Okay.

Every team needs a leader that's willing to do – everything that he's asking you to do, right? Like Andy, Mo, Posada, Jeter, the core four, like those guys, those legends, they wouldn't ask anybody on the team to do nothing that they weren't willing to do, whether it was run, work harder, do everything.

So if they're doing all of that stuff and they're at the top of the game and they're the Yankees, they got four rings, like who am I to come in and not work my ass off? Who is Nick Swisher to come in and not? You know what I'm saying? Like you fall in line.

It's not like...

I hate when you say fall in line because that makes it sound weird, but you fall in line.

If you look at the track record since 2017, and we go back to then, cuz it's basically trading for J Bruce, you know, that was a, that was a big addition then, you know, they went out and signed Edwin Encarnacion.

That was a huge free agent contract at that point that they hadn't done probably, you know, since the Nick Swisher acquisition, uh, Michael Bourne, you know, they, they really felt snake bitten by that.

And I don't blame them that got burned on both those deals and they were, they were big duds.

Um, but I, I think what's important is it's not just the Guardians entering this offseason and the unknown about roster construction and how to do it, Jack.

But prior to that season, they went out and they got CeCe Sabathia and they got AJ Burnett and they got Mark Teixeira.

And they also added, again, some of those different style character guys to bat lower in the lineup, like Nick Swisher, who is not an outstanding baseball player, but he was always a guy that I loved, partly because of personality, but also just because he's a switch hitter who was a hard out from either side of the plate.

And I think Phil has a really good point that...

You know, the they haven't always and they didn't always win championships by going out and getting the most expensive big name player in the way that the Dodgers went out and did that.

Oh, yeah.

You k- Nick Swisher, he joined a pod- he's on a podcast with, um, NBA player Matt Barnes, and it, Nick is, he's very interesting.

He's an interesting guy.

Maybe Nick Fisher is, but base-

Swisher.

... of, uh, my point is baseball players are, I don't know, they're all K- they all kind of cut from the same cloth.

They're weirdos.