Long-time New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada will officially announce his retirement on Tuesday, ending a 17-year Major League Baseball career all spent with the Yankees, the team said on Monday.

The Yankees said in an article posted on their website that the 40-year-old from Puerto Rico will hold a news conference at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday to make the move official.

Posada had said in November that he didn’t think he would be with the Yankees next season, after a 2011 campaign in which tensions arose between him and the club.

However, he didn’t know if he wanted to play for another team.

“The New York Yankees for me is my second family. It will be tough to put on another uniform for real and learn another set of rules and all that stuff,” he said then.

This month, Posada decided he wouldn’t go that route.

Posada was switched from catcher to designated hitter before the 2011 season. After a difficult start to the season, Yankees manager Joe Girardi put him ninth in the lineup at a game in May, prompting Posada to pull himself out of the lineup shortly before the game.

After a solid June he was benched in August, but started all five of the Yankees’ first-round playoff series games against Detroit as the designated hitter.

The fact that he will make his retirement official at Yankee Stadium is a sign he and the club have mended fences.

He will depart as one of the best offensive catchers in baseball history. He hit 275 home runs, 246 of them as a catcher, and had a .374 on-base percentage and .474 slugging percentage in 7150 plate appearances.

Posada added 11 homers and a .358 on-base percentage in 492 plate appearances over 125 post-season games and his passion for the sport made him a favorite of Yankees fans.