Jorge Posada doubts he'll play for Yanks again

Jorge Posada said he hasn't made up his mind on next season but he's come to terms with this much:

If he does play, it won't be for the Yankees. "I don't think there's even a percentage of a chance that I can come back," Posada said in Manhattan, where he and his wife, Laura, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Jorge Posada Foundation.

Earlier in the day, at a New York Cares Coat Drive event in the city, general manager Brian Cashman said he had not yet spoken with Posada. Regardless, Posada said he knows there simply isn't a spot for him.

When asked again about holding out hope for a return, he shrugged and said, "It's not going to happen."

The last time anyone saw Posada in a public setting, he excused himself, in tears, from the media throng in front of his locker. It was after Game 5 of the ALDS and he had been asked to contemplate the possibility that he had played his last game as a Yankee.

Wednesday night, wearing a charcoal gray suit with Laura by his side, Posada was mostly smiles and spoke matter-of-factly.

He said since free agency began he has been contacted by "five or six" teams -- he didn't specify -- and said a decision on whether to play will come down to the reality of slipping into another uniform.

"I will always be a Yankee," Posada said. "The Yankees, for me, is my second family. It would be tough to put on another uniform for real and learn another set of rules and all that stuff. That's one of those things I have to see about if I want to keep playing."

Posada said he spoke Wednesday to Bernie Williams, a player who had a rough split from the Yankees, but said he has no bitterness toward the Yankees.

"You wish there were some things that could have gone differently but they didn't," said Posada, perhaps referencing being told last November his catching days were over and when Joe Girardi dropped him to ninth in the batting order before a nationally televised game against the Red Sox. "Everything happened for a reason. I'm not bitter at the Yankees. I'm not bitter at Joe Girardi, I'm not bitter at Brian Cashman. It just happened. I wish at that moment I would have changed a couple things but it happened. You learn from it . . . I have no bitterness toward the New York Yankees."

Laura added: "The same way they handle their team, we handle our foundation. They have always supported us."

Reyes in Miami. As expected, Jose Reyes met with the Marlins Wednesday, receiving a tour of their new ballpark in Miami. Team president David Samson confirmed the team's meeting with the All-Star shortstop on his weekly radio show on WAXY-AM. "We're interested in making our team better," Samson said. "To be interested, you have to be interesting, and you have to meet and get to know each other."