This probably isn’t the way Mark Teixeira would have written his swan song to Major League Baseball; limping through his final year in the league, batting .198 with 10 home runs and 28 RBI, while playing sparingly for a fourth place team that has finally conceded to a long-awaited rebuild.
Teixeira is part of the old-guard now, a passe way of thinking for the new–New York Yankees, one that saw the organization continually sign big-ticket free agents, while trading away minor league assets, because the future was always right now.
Well, that way is no more.