Joe Girardi: ‘I take responsibility’ for Yankees failures

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PHOENIX — Joe Girardi said he hadn’t seen the comments of Hal Steinbrenner absolving him, his coaches and GM Brian Cashman of culpability in the New York Yankees’ poor start.

But he wasn’t about to accept the absolution of his boss without at least an attempt at shouldering some of the blame.

“Because I didn’t see them and talk to Hal, I don’t really have any comment,” Girardi said Wednesday before his last-place team took the field trying to avert a sweep at the hands of the also-struggling Arizona Diamondbacks. “I always take full responsibility for what happens here — good or bad. It’s my job to get the best out of the players and right now, we’re not performing to the level I think we’re capable of.”

Even though he said he had not read Steinbrenner’s comments placing blame on the underperforming Mark Teixeira, Chase Headley, …

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