New York Yankees Baseball

Torre Continues to Dangle, is LaRussa the Next Skipper?

October 10th, 2007

According to an article in the NY Daily News, Tony LaRussa is being considered as a potential replacement for Joe Torre as the New York Yankees manager, instead of current bench coach Don Mattingly or former Florida Marlins manager Joe Girardi. It is also being rumored that, should LaRussa join the Yankees, he would likely bring along with him pitching coach Dave Duncan - the father of Yankees youngster Shelley Duncan.

In the other soap-opera-like Yankees offseason situation, Alex Rodriguez’ agent Scott Boras recently explained why he feels that A-Rod is worthy of a new, even larger record-setting contract. In addition to being the likely American League MVP, Boras describes A-Rod as a "IPN" player (a term Boras seems to have coined himself).

Boras described Rodriguez as an IPN player. That Boras-devised term means:

1. Iconic, “that he’s an iconic player, he comes in there and increases the brand value, increases the attendance of the franchise.”

2. Performance, “Nationally, people look at Alex completely differently than they did back when he did his contract . . . People really understand now that this player has the ability to break many of the records in baseball.”

3. Network value, “that’s really the new part here, the value that he adds to the regional network.”

Entry Filed under: Joe Torre, Joe Girardi, Don Mattingly, A-Rod, Tony LaRussa, Rumors