Yankees’ Joe Girardi talks about working without new deal for ’18
TAMPA — Joe Girardi worked the 2013 season without a contract for the following year and he is going to repeat the process this season.
Girardi is in the final year of a four-year, $16 million deal he signed after the 2013 season and isn’t looking for the issue to be resolved.
“It really doesn’t impact me. I am going to do my job the same way and what I believe is the right way to do it,’’ said Girardi, who enters his 10th season as the manager with a 819-639 record in The Bronx. “I won’t seek any clarity. They don’t extend managers, as long as I can remember, during the course of a season. So I will go do my job and see and whatever happens. Let’s go play it out.’’
In addition to working without a contract for 2018, Girardi will have some inexperienced players in big spots this season. Though the Yankees haven’t participated in a postseason series since 2012, he doesn’t believe the end is near.
“I don’t envision doing anything different and maybe that’s why I don’t think much about it,’’ Girardi said of his contract status. “This is what I have done for a long time.’’