Brewers manager rips Yankees during World Series celebration: ‘Everyone playing for themselves’

Everyone is piling on the Yankees, even the Milwaukee Brewers while they were on the field celebrating their first World Series championship.Shortly after the Brewers finished off the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-1 win in Wednesday night’s Game 5 at Tropicana Field, manager Pat Murphy was caught on camera taking a shot at the Yankees while he was hugging first baseman Jake Bauers.“Remember when you were on that (expletive) Yankee team,” Murphy told Bauers. “Everyone playing for themselves. Just remember!“A journeyman left-handed slugger, Bauers spent part of the 2023 season for an 82-80 Yankees that missed the playoffs.The Yankees, who haven’t won a World Series since 2009, have been torched by several former star players since Oct. 7, when they were swept out of the playoffs by the Rays in an American League Division Series.Bauers was traded to the Brewers after the 2023 season for two minor-league outfielders and had a career year in 2026, hitting .266 with 26 homers, 86 RBI and an .874 OPS. He batted just .191 in 13 postseason games, but won NLCS MVP honors after batting .286 with one homer and six RBI during Milwaukee’s four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.Bauers, 31, will be a free agent this winter.In May, the Brewers swept the Yankees in a weekend series in Milwaukee. Bauers played one of the games and contributed a solo homer in a walk-off win at American Family Field.In 2023, Bauers began the season in Triple-A, was recalled in late April and hit .202 with 12 homers and 30 RBI in 84 games. He made 66 starts — 26 in right field, 20 in left field and 20 at first base.Bauers is a career .233 hitter in seven seasons with Rays (2018), Indians (2019, 2021), Mariners (2021), Yankees (2023) and Brewers (2024-26).Murphy’s criticism came one day after Yankees great Jorge Posada told the New York Post podcast that he “doesn’t feel welcome” around the Yankees, “even in spring training.”A five-time All-Star catcher, Posada has five World Series rings from spending his entire 17-year career with the Yankees from 1995 to 2011. Posada’s comments followed lambasting of the Yankees’ clubhouse culture, fundamentals and appearance policy by Derek Jeter, CC Sabathia, Alex Rodriguez, Paul O’Neill and Joe Girardi.Jeter, Posada, Sabathia and A-Rod were star players on the Yankees’ last World Series championship team in 2009. Girardi was the manager. O’Neill won four World Series with the Yankees (1996, 1998-2000).Here is some of the recent criticism of the Yankees, which was downplayed last week by owner Hal Steinbrenner, general manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone in Zoom interviews:PAUL O’NEILLO’Neill to NJ.com baseball columnist Bob Klapisch: “I loved the way the Rays played. I love to see baseball played well. A lot of it is preparation and fundamentals that are not stressed anymore because it’s all about hit the three-run homer (for the Yankees). If you don’t work on the fundamentals in spring training, then you can’t just turn it on when the season is on the line. I’m talking about guys throwing to the wrong base, missing bunts, throwing balls away.“When I came from the Reds to the Yankees (in 1993), your hair had to be cut, you couldn’t have beards. The Reds had rules, the Yankees had rules. You need a uniform (look). Now everyone is out there on their own. I mean, we’ve got pink shoes, yellow shoes, green shoes. There’s no uniform there. I mean, you’re the New York Yankees. You’re different because of the tradition and because of the name: New York Yankees. I always felt that when I walked onto the field and I’d see Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. You had something to live up to. You were proud about that. What an opportunity. Sometimes I think that’s lost.”DEREK JETERJeter on FOX post-game show after the Rays swept the Yankees in the ALDS: “We were (playing for Yankees) teams that focused on all the little things. We would beat you with the home run, but we’d also beat you 2-1. There’s different ways of winning games when you’re not swinging the bats well. But we didn’t beat ourselves, and I think in this particular series, there were a lot of games where the Yankees beat themselves,” Jeter said.ALEX RODRIGUEZRodriguez on The Herd with Colin Cowherd radio show: “You don’t see that fear there anymore. People go into Yankee Stadium, they beat us, and then they make fun of us.”Rodriguez on FOX post-game show after the Rays swept the Yankees in the ALDS: “Something has to change. I’m not talking about personnel, but I’m talking about a philosophy. There has to be a philosophy change. You’ve won 27 titles one way. I’m not saying anyone should lose their job, I’ll make that clear. But Cashman has to surround himself with people that know baseball, that understand baseball, that can value both sides of the ball. It’s unthinkable in a game where your season is on the line, and of the nine positions, you don’t know who’s gonna play five positions — first base, second base, third base, center field, and right field because Judge is out. If something doesn’t change, you’re gonna have the same results. We’ve been watching the same movie for over a decade, and nothing changes.”JOE GIRARDI Girardi onNew York Post podcast The Show: “Some of the baserunning (miscues), all the sliding over bases—someone’s got to say something, enough is enough … There are things that happen where you wonder, ‘Is someone saying anything?’CC SABATHIASabathia on uptownsportstv: “No disrespect, but there’s nobody in there keeping that standard. Once Gardy left, it’s been a wrap. When I first came, it was Ron Guidry, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Rivers, Willie Randolph. It was not only the ‘Core 4,’ it was those guys, too, so you knew what the standard was. The standard was sitting in the f---ing room right next to you, the guys ain’t there no more. Like Jorge not around, Derek sitting on the Fox desk, Mo is somewhere selling hot sauce. You know what I’m saying. These dudes need to be around the clubhouse. They need to be in Tampa, in spring training. That was the standard. That’s how the standard is set, and those guys ain’t around no more. It’s completely different.”JORGE POSADAPosada onNew York Post podcast The Show: “I don’t feel welcome when I go there, you know? Even in spring training, I don’t feel like -- I’m just like, I don’t know, I don’t feel welcome. I don’t feel like they want me there, so I don’t go.” Read the original article on NJ.com. Add NJ.com as a Preferred Source by clicking here.