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Letter to the Editor: Ensure students are career-ready, not merely ready to graduate

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RailRiders win league-best 8th straight

<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Former major league outfielder Nick Swisher says he is stepping away from the game to spend time with his wife and two daughters.</p><p>In a series of posts to his Twitter account on Saturday, Swisher said he plans to keep training every day and &#8220;evaluate my options for next season at the appropriate time.&#8221;</p><p>The 35-year-old Swisher hasn&#8217;t appeared in a major league game this season. He was released by Atlanta late in spring training and signed a minor league contract with the New York Yankees in April.</p><p>Swisher played in 55 games with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and went 56 for 220 (.255) with 25 RBI during that stretch.</p><p>Swisher and his wife, JoAnna, recently welcomed their second daughter, Sailor Stevie.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we would have signed him if we didn&#8217;t want to take a look at him,&#8221; Yankees manager Joe Girardi said before New York played at San Diego. &#8220;We just felt some guys were ahead of him at the time. He was never called and I respect what he did. He had another baby and he&#8217;ll enjoy that.&#8221;</p><p>While the Yankees could have brought up Swisher, they left him on the RailRiders and brought up Chris Parmelee, who then got hurt, and they still didn&#8217;t bring up Swisher.</p><p>Swisher is earning $15 million this year under the contract he signed with Cleveland before the 2013 season.</p><p>Asked what he&#8217;ll remember about Swisher&#8217;s career, Girardi said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure that this will be it for him. He was a guy that brought a lot of energy and had some big years for us. Patient hitter that had power.&#8221;</p><p>Swisher, the son of former major league catcher Steve Swisher, made his major league debut with Oakland in 2004. He has 245 homers and 803 RBIs in 1,527 games.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Nick Swisher steps away from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to focus on family