In two years with the Yankees, Jacoby Ellsbury hasn’t exhibited a desire to be confrontational on any level.
He can be evasive answering questions and didn’t surface in the clubhouse after being reduced to a pinch-hitter in Tuesday night’s AL wild-card loss to the Astros that ended the Yankees’ season.
Yet, when Joe Girardi was asked Friday he needed to repair his relationship with Ellsbury this offseason because the manager benched the $153 million investment, he wasn’t sure.
“As far as fence mending, that is to be determined as I talk to all the players during the course of the winter,’’ said Girardi, who started the right-handed-hitting Chris Young against lefty Dallas Keuchel.