Girardi Addresses His Growing To-Do List As he does after every season, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi took a few days to decompress. He has not yet spoken with Andy Pettitte, who is mulling retirement. Nor has he spoken with Alex Rodriguez, whose postseason deteriorated into a series of embarrassing moments in which he was benched for entire games or yanked from the lineup for a pinch-hitter. "That's still on the to-do list," Girardi said Wednesday morning at Yankee Stadium. I've tried to step back a little bit. We're all going to evaluate ourselves. That will take place, but it hasn't happened yet. Six days after the Yankees were swept out of the postseason by the Detroit Tigers, that revelation was sort of noteworthy. Otherwise, Girardi, speaking publicly for the first time since last Thursday's final defeat, did not have much to offer on why his team seemed to crumble so completely and unexpectedly in the American League Championship Series. Indeed, he sounded as if he were still trying to grasp why the Yankees' offense disappeared so completely. "Some of that you can say you're facing better pitching, but we faced good pitching all year long," Girardi said. That's probably the coldest our bats have been collectively in a streak that I have seen. He acknowledged that his decisions regarding Rodriguez - and other players whom he benched or moved about in the lineup in an effort to get something going- could have lingering repercussions. But he said he does not regret making any of those moves. "I was making moves trying to win ballgames," Girardi said. So if it comes to that, I will work on it. The one thing I have been is I've been honest with our players and I will continue to do that. I will do my best for this organization to win every game. When asked if the 37-year-old Rodriguez could regain his dominance at the plate, Girardi maintained optimism and referenced Derek Jeter and Ichiro Suzuki as two examples of players who had rebounded from down seasons at an advanced baseball age. Can Alex be a very good player again? Absolutely," Girardi said. I don't have a question in my mind. I think the desire is there. As far as the rest of the roster, the Yankees have significant question marks involving free agency, age, injury and retirement. He downplayed the significance of ace C.C. Sabathia's expected visit with the notable orthopedist Dr. James Andrews, saying "at times people need to be evaluated." He expects Sabathia to be ready for spring training. But Girardi said he was not entirely sure whether Mariano Rivera would be there, too, after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament on May 3. In fact, he said that he has never spoken with the 42-year-old Rivera about his future plans. "I never asked," Girardi said. That way I don't have the answer. But, Girardi added, "I don't think you push your rehab as hard as he pushed it unless you have some interest in coming back." He gave a similar statement regarding the 40-year-old Pettitte, whom has not yet announced whether he would return for another year after coming out of retirement to pitch this season. "There's a lot of hunger and fire in him, I know that," Girardi said. We saw how hard he pushed himself back to be a postseason and down-the-stretch pitcher for us.