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Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #60 Mark Teixeira

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Name: Mark Charles Teixeira
Position: First base
Born: April 11, 1980 (Annapolis, MD)
Yankee Years: 2009-16
Primary number: 25
Yankee statistics: 958 G, 4,098 PA, .248/.343/.479, 185 2B, 5 3B, 206 HR, 120 wRC+, 19.3 rWAR, 18.4 fWAR

Biography

To call the 2009 offseason a savvy one for the Yankees may not be the right word, but aggressive? Or successful? Absolutely. They spent over $400 million on free agents in the winter of ‘08 to ‘09, while making some impactful trades in the process.