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Girardi is a former professional baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Girardi played the catcher position for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals during a big league playing career that spanned from 1989 to 2003.
He won three World Series championships with the Yankees in the 1990s and served as the catcher for both Dwight Gooden‘s no-hitter and David Cone’s perfect game.
Girardi became the Yankeesโ bench coach in 2005. In 2006, he managed the Florida Marlins and was named the National League (NL) Manager of the Year, but was fired after just one season with the team. Girardi managed the Yankees from 2008 to 2017, winning the 2009 World Series over the Phillies. He served as a color analyst for MLB Network and Fox Sports for two years before being named manager of the Philadelphia Phillies in October 2019; he was fired midway through their 2022 pennant season. He has also served as an analyst for Cubs telecasts on the Marquee Sports Network and for Yankees telecasts on the YES Network.
