Can you still consider Jeter, Posada, and Rivera "homegrown" talent?

good point.

True, but players will tend to stick with a team that treats them well if they came up through the organization at a lower price. Rivera doesn't play for the Yankees for the money, he's always been a Yankee and considers the team his home. Likewise for Posada. Jeter has been a Yankee fan since he was a kid spending his summers with his grandmother in New Jersey. Even Pettitte, who left the Yankees to follow his best friend back to a ballpark near his off-season home returned because he never really felt like an Astro. He was always a Yankee and wanted to retire with the team.

Every one of those guys could get a bigger contract with someone else. They play for New York because it is home to them.

The best example is Bernie Williams. Before signing his last contract with New York, he was offered more money from several other teams. He almost took it. He came to the Stadium to think about it, lied down in center field, and tried to imagine playing any place else. He knew he was a lifer, and so are the players you've mentioned. They are the home grown talent that has formed the core of this team since 1996.

Yes, because it's not like they took those players from other teams. Those players never played on any other team than the Yankees.

Mark Teixeira, CC, Burnett, A-Rod, on the other hand, are not homegrown obviously, because they came from other teams.

Jeter, Posada, and Rivera have been in the Yankees organization their whole career, so yes, i believe them to be "homegrown" talent.

Homegrown talent generally means someone who came up through your farm system and stayed with your team throughout your entire career (or up to that point). Jeter, Posada and Rivera all qualify for that. I wouldn't consider Andy Pettite this since he played for the Astros for 3 years. I guess you could call Hideki Matsui a Yankee. But he already established from Japan. Robinson Cano, Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, Chien-Ming Wang, Brett Gardner and Melky Cabrera would also qualify as ''home grown'' talent.

Yes they are still homegrown talent because they came up with the Yankees & that's the bottom line

Homegrown means that they all came through the Yankees organization, not that they play for a low salary.

They were, everyone of them, as well as Andy Pettitte came thru their system, and whats really impressive is that between the 4 of them, they now have 20 rings.

That's the way to build a franchise, I hope the Mets were listening when they said that last night.

Jealous much?

They are STILL considered as homegrown talent so stop hating.

Wow... this takes nitpicking to a whole different level...

I won't even dignify this question with a legitimate response. I can only imagine how many thumbs down this "answer" will get.

Sorry, but home grown means home grown. You can't redefine to suit your own Yankee hating agenda.