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Joe Girardi is leading off the Yankees’ search for a new manager, meeting with club executives at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla. Girardi is preceding Don Mattingly in the sequence, with Mattingly expected to be interviewed on Tuesday. A third candidate, first-base coach Tony Pena, is likely to follow on Wednesday.

Girardi, 43, spent the 2007 season as a broadcaster with the YES Network after managing the Florida Marlins in 2006. A former catcher for 15 seasons in the Major Leagues — including playing the 1996 through 1999 seasons with the Yankees, winning three World Series rings — Girardi served for one season as Joe Torre’s bench coach in 2005 before accepting the Marlins job. Gerardi led a MArlins team which previously was in last place, to 78 wins and earning Girardi honors as the National League Manager of the Year.



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