tOfficial "Derek Jeter Retirement Circus" Thread

[cezero]

The Hater?s Guide To Derek Jeter

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Nobody else on here will probably even click your spam link, but it's pretty hilarious that you took the time to find it.

Please post a pic of your face during Jeter's last AB. I promise not to laugh.

 

[$500 Million]

Nobody else on here will probably even click your spam link, but it's pretty hilarious that you took the time to find it.

Please post a pic of your face during Jeter's last AB. I promise not to laugh.

Just supplying you guys with oxygen

This is what you live for right?

 

[cezero]

Just supplying you guys with oxygen

This is what you live for right?

your reactions are what we hope for.

you never disappoint.

thank you.

 

[Rex Racer]

your reactions are what we hope for.

you never disappoint.

thank you.

Be nice, all he wants is to get his very own gift basket.

 

[gandydancer]

Small rundown to date on his gifts.

Ranking Derek Jeter's farewell tour gifts so far. | SportsonEarth.com : Pat Borzi Article

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Jeter passes Yaz for # 7 on all time hits list....next is Honus Wagner.

Derek Jeter of New York Yankees ties Carl Yastrzemski on MLB hits list - ESPN New York

* He was 10 hits behind Wagner for #6.....and he went 3 for 4 in tonight's loss to Texas, putting him 7 away.

 

[cezero]

A big congrats to Jeter for tying Manny Ramirez for #15 on the all time strikeout victim list.

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN!!!!

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

^ That's one heckuva list.....lol....and he could conceivably make it into the top 10 w/ 2 months to go.
Career Leaders &amp Records for Strikeouts | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[HammerDown]

 

[gandydancer]

Sad part is of the 92 people in the stands 84 are Yankee fans.

 

[navamind]

Here's Derek Jeter's face in a 5-acre N.J. corn maze | NJ.com

 

[Wamu]

So how many Yankee fans out there have Jeter on their Mount Rushmore of all time Yankee greats? While Jeter has had a great career my four would be...the Babe, the Iron Horse, the Yankee Clipper & the Mick.

 

[BoSox Fan]

New guy here. Yankee hater here. How much do I hate the Yanks? If the Yanks are playing Team Cuba, I am rooting for the Commies.

Also let me add I did live in NY for a number of years. I went to college there, worked in NYC and have friends and a few relatives that are Yanks fans.

I did not read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been posted before.

Jeter is a great player. But the think that I always laugh at is when Yanks say "Jeter would do anything to make the Yanks better." That is so so so so wrong.

When the got A-Fraud (and as a Red Sox fan let's take a moment here to thank the Players Union for changing the course of history) everyone knew A-Roid was the better fielding SS. But did the Captian move? NOPE. As one of my old college house mates said "He should not have to, it;'s his team." But that was not the question.

Again this year when the got Drew from the Red Sox, Drew had to move to 2nd, even though everyone would say Drew is the better SS.

So why I agree that Jeter is a great player, a first ballot HOF, he did not everything he could to make the Yanks better.

That's all for the rant.

 

[BoSox Fan]

So how many Yankee fans out there have Jeter on their Mount Rushmore of all time Yankee greats? While Jeter has had a great career my four would be...the Babe, the Iron Horse, the Yankee Clipper & the Mick.

You forgot Steve Howe.

 

[navamind]

So how many Yankee fans out there have Jeter on their Mount Rushmore of all time Yankee greats? While Jeter has had a great career my four would be...the Babe, the Iron Horse, the Yankee Clipper & the Mick.

Pretty much. Could maybe make a case for him over DiMaggio because of career length IMO, but that's about it.

 

[da55bums]

Thanks to Alex Avila's walk-off single, the Yankees dropped an important game to the Tigers on Thursday afternoon (DET 3, NYY 2). The loss dropped New York to three games back of both the Tigers and Mariners for the second wild-card spot. FanGraphs now puts their postseason odds at 9.7 percent.
In the Thursday's game, Yankees captain Derek Jeter went 0-for-4 with three ground outs to short and a fly ball to center field. It extended his August slump -- he is now hitting .216/.235/.278 this month -- and lowered his season batting line to .265/.313/.317 in 525 plate appearances. That is roughly 24 percent worse than league average.
Jeter is a slam dunk, no doubt about it first ballot Hall of Famer, but he looks very much his age in his final season. The history of 40-year-old shortstops is ugly -- only one 40+ year old shortstop has been worth even 0.8 WAR in the last 50 years -- and Jeter's performance this summer is no different. It would have been a surprise if he hit like vintage Jeter, not that he's struggled this year.
And yet, because he's Derek Jeter, manager Joe Girardi and the Yankees have continued to pencil him into the second spot in the lineup because that's where he's always hit. With big money free agent signing Jacoby Ellsbury entrenched at the top of the lineup, Brett Gardner and his team-leading 120 OPS+ started Thursday's game batting eighth.
Furthermore, Jeter continues to play shortstop on an everyday basis. He has started 108 of the team's 132 games at short plus another eight at DH. There is no disputing Jeter is the third best defensive shortstop on the team's roster behind Brendan Ryan and Stephen Drew. And yet, Drew is playing second base and Ryan has played all over the infield -- including first base -- in deference to the captain.
The Yankees are in an uncomfortable situation with Jeter. They aren't stupid, Girardi and the front office know he is a shadow of the player he once was, but they continue to treat him like he's vintage Jeter out of respect for who is and what he's done for the franchise. The team has better options to bat second (Gardner, Martin Prado) and better options to play at short (Drew, Ryan), yet they stick with Jeter.
Unfortunately this treatment of Jeter is also costing the Yankees games in the standings at a time when every win is crucial. There are also real life ramifications here -- if the Yankees miss the postseason, they'll lose out on millions of dollars in postseason revenue. Even more than usual since this would be their second straight postseason-less year.
There is no easy solution. Not in the real world. It's easy to sit back and say they should bat Jeter ninth or take him off shortstop -- I know I wouldn't want to be the person to tell him that's happening -- but such a move would result in a media frenzy and constant questions for Girardi, Jeter and the rest of the team. It would be a major distraction. How would the veteran clubhouse take to their captain being marginalized? That's another question we can't answer.
I'm sure that, in the Yankees' perfect world, Jeter would volunteer to move down in the lineup or not play shortstop. There is zero chance of that happening though. No player has ever offered to reduce their role like that. These guys are top notch competitors and they're always the last to admit their skills have eroded. The chances of Jeter volunteering to bat down in the order are about as good as the chances of me replacing him at shortstop next year.
"I wasn't hired to put on a farewell tour," said Girardi to reporters, including the New York Post, back in April when asked about handling Jeter this year. Actions speaker louder than words though, and it's clear the Yankees are catering to their captain in his final season. (This isn't all on Girardi, by the way. Ownership and the front office are definitely involved in the decision making.)
The Yankees are treating Jeter as if he is the player he was most of his career, and you know what? That's perfectly fine. They're allowed to do that if they want. The result is that they're not putting the best possible team on the field most nights despite being in the middle of a postseason race, however. It's uncomfortable for everyone, from the team to the fans to Jeter himself. The end of the line for a fading superstar is almost never pretty and this is no exception.

 

[gandydancer]

Good read Bums.

I just don't get how a good/great captain can hurt his team and not sit the bench?

 

[HammerDown]

"The Yankees were either willing to gamble on an unlikely rebound or they figured they would make enough money on a farewell tour that they didn't care how a one-legged double-play machine (on offense, not defense) would affect their chances."

More here: Batting Derek Jeter second is all Joe Girardi can do - SBNation.com

 

[steveringo]

WTF... I thought this was a joke...

 

[navamind]

Can Jeter keep his SLG% above .300?