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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann has gotten off to a rough start in his first season with the club, prompting his former hitting coach, Terry Pendleton, to say he doesn't think that McCann will ever be comfortable in pinstripes.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;McCann is hitting .230 with 10 home runs and 38 RBI in 79 games this season.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;McCann spent his first nine seasons with the Atlanta Braves, making seven All-Star game appearances for the National League.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pendleton also said that the way defenses are shifting towards McCann and his lucrative contract are also factors in his early season slump.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"That money is hanging over his head,\u201D Braves hitting coach Terry Pendleton said, via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;New York Post&lt;/em&gt;. \u201CA lot of guys say, \u2018I\u2019ve got to live up to that,\u2019 instead of \u2018They signed you to play your game.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;McCann bolted Atlanta in the offseason, signing a five-year, $85 million deal with the Yankees.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MORE MLB COVERAGE:&amp;nbsp;MLB Power Rankings&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;Few surprises or major mistakes among AL, NL All-Star rosters\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CNew York is not Brian,\u201D Pendleton said. \"That\u2019s my opinion. I knew if he chose New York, there would be more than he expected or knew about. He\u2019ll never be comfortable with that.\u201D&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;~&lt;em&gt;Scooby &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Axson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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