Catcher Jorge Posada says his Yankee days are over

Jorge Posada. AFP PHOTO

NEW YORK – Catcher Jorge Posada said Wednesday he won’t return to the New York Yankees next season, and he’ll either join another team or retire after 17 years in Major League Baseball.

“I don’t think there’s not even a percentage of chance that I can come back,” Posada, 40, said prior to his charitable foundation’s annual dinner.

Posada about half a dozen teams had expressed interest in him through his agents, but he doesn’t expect to make a decision on his future until early 2012, sometime before spring training begins in February.

“I feel I’m undecided. I don’t know if I want to play. I don’t know if I want to stay home,” he said. “I’m having fun with the kids and with the family, but I don’t know what I want to do.

“I don’t want to make the mistake of telling you that I’m not going to play or telling you that I’m going to play when I don’t know what I want to do.”

Posada has spent all of his major league career with the Yankees, and said he didn’t know if he wanted to start over with a new team at this point.

“The New York Yankees for me is my second family. It will be tough to put on another uniform for real and learn another set of rules and all that stuff.”