He is one of the most influential professional baseball managers in the world and probably one of the best if not the best. Joe Girardi has been associated with baseball from his childhood as before he was a baseball manager he was one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
He was born in the year 1964 on 14th of October which makes him 52 years old at this current moment. At this age, he has achieved everything possible in the game as a player and as a manager.
He was born in a place called Peoria which lies in Illinois of United States of America, and this makes his nationality American. He is currently the manager of the famous New York Yankees and his work as a manager is out of this world.
He is a tall man with a height of 1.80 meters. A lot of information related to him and his biography can be grabbed from wiki site like Wikipedia. He is very famous in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
He has 2139 followers in his one account and 3191 followers on his second account on Twitter. The numbers are less because he keeps on changing his Twitter accounts and shortly, if he sticks with one account he will have millions of followers on Twitter.
He is very popular on Facebook also as he uses his personal account to address his fans and loved ones. He uploads his pictures in Instagram and shares them with his fans. He is a baseball superstar and a very down to earth person. His works very hard in his job and no one will ever want him to get fired.
He was dating his girlfriend, Kimberly Innocenzi many years back before he decided to marry her and convert their affair into a marital relationship.
The couple got married in the year 1990 and is living happily as husband and wife since then. He is a very caring husband, and as their relationship is built on trust and mutual understanding, the couple is more likely to never going through a process of divorce.
He has three children, and their names are Dante Girardi, Lena Yvonne Girardi, and the last one Serena Girardi. He is not gay as he has a wife and three children.
He works hard and gets a healthy salary. He has an annual salary of a jaw-dropping 4 million dollars.
In the past, he had two contracts, and it cost the club a whopping 7.8 million ad 9 million to sign him, and these figures prove his worth in the baseball world. He has a net worth of $10 million US dollars, and with the salary, he is getting it is only likely to increase heavily in future.
His statistics as a player was mind blowing. He has a batting average of .267 per game, and he had hit the ball out of the park for a home run 36 times in his career. He scored a total of 422 runs in his playing career.
As a manager, he has managed 1204 baseball games and the numbers of games he has managed to show how experienced he is.
He has won 726 games and lost only 570 which prove all the money it takes to sign him. He has a winning percentage of .560 as a manager which is very impressive.
In his playing career, he played for teams like Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, and St Louis Cardinals. He managed Florida Marlins before taking charge of New York Yankees.
After this game, I’m gonna get chinese food…
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— Joe Girardi’s Binder (@BinderGirardi) November 26, 2016
He has been awarded NL Manager of the Year in the year 2006, and he has won the World Series Championship a record four times.