CLEMSON – Former New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi was in Clemson Saturday night as the guest speaker for the preseason baseball banquet, and his message to Monte Lee’s players was simple.
Why not this year?
Girardi and the Yankees came within one game of going to the World Series in 2017, losing to the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. In 10 years at the helm, Girardi won one World Series and made the playoffs six times.
He wound up at Clemson through Marty Clary, the former Atlanta Braves pitcher who lives in the area and often does Clemson baseball TV telecasts.