Derek Jeter

you don’t remember, was the Yankees’ comeback over the Athletics, featuring the famous Derek Jeter flip to catcher Jorge Posada to get Jeremy Giambi at home, giving the Bronx Bombe

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After their playing careers are over, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera will undoubtedly be elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, but will teammate Jorge Posada join them in Cooperstown?  Yankee fans may feel differently, but the truth is that if Posada retired from baseball today, he would not belong in The Hall.  His credentials include five trips to the All-Star Game, five Silver Slugger awards, 243 home runs, and five seasons with 90+ RBI’s, as well as having caught the perfect game thrown by David Wells in 1998.  Arguments against Posada’s candidacy are that he is not a strong defensive catcher, has only once batted over .300 (.277 career average) and his 1,488 career hits do not make him stand out among his catching peers.  Despite 11 career playoff home runs, his postseason line (.239/.351/.384) is sub-par for a catcher known primarily for his hitting.

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ree-year hiatus from the Bronx Bombers, Pettitte has as many World Series rings (five) as teammates Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Jorge Posada, and even had the chance at another in 2005 with the Astros, who were swept by the White Sox in the Fall Classic that year.  With four wins during his team’s run to their 27th World Series Championship, Pettitte passed John Smoltz for the all-time Major League lead with 18 career postseason wins, 17 of which have come as a member of the Yankees.  Yankee fans are anxious to see whether Pettitte will decide to retire or play another year in the Bronx.

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this?  After hitting just .211 in 272 regular season at-bats, the Angels catcher has resembled Derek Jeter in the postseason.  With hits in his first three times up last night, the team’s hottest hitter collected hits in six consecutive at-bats, including four doubles – one of which was a walk-off hit in the bottom of the 13th inning of Game 3 to give the Angels their first win of the ALCS.

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The Iron Horse would be proud of Jeter

With his next base knock, Derek Jeter will break Lou Gehrig’s Yankee record of 2,721 career hits.  After pas

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Alex "A-Roid" Rodriguez has to be one of the dumbest athletes in modern sports. He's getting paid $33 million per year, as part of a 52-year contract, so he's set for life. Yet he resorts to using steroids. Why? He clearly has it all. He's already on pace to break Bonds' home-run "record." Besides that, he's known as the best offensive hitter in the game, when healthy. The staff and myself racked our brains over why the slugger feels he needed the extra edge. Having been stumped, we came up with 10 reasons why he doesn't need steroids, in hopes of convincing the vain ballplayer to lay off the juice.

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It’s the All-Star Break once again, that mythical halfway point in the season (I say “mythical” because most teams have played 95-96 games, more than the 81 that’s the true midway mark). Traditionally, it’s time for the teams to take a breath, collect themselves and iron out any kinks in their batting stroke or the pitching rotation—several starters made relief appearances or threw out of turn in the past game or two, knowing that three or four days of rest was coming for all of them.

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aches and players—reportedly, manager Joe Girardi spoke, followed by Johnny Damon and captain Derek Jeter. In a postgame news conference, Girardi repeatedly (and sometimes heatedly) refused to reveal what was said in the meeting, although the gist of the discussion was obvious: the can’t-lose Yankees have been losing.

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h; count ‘em five shortstops: elected starter Alex Rodriguez was joined by Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Jeter, Miguel Tejada, and Omar Vizquel – this year’s top vote-getters are Jeter and Michael Young, neither of whom is having an All-Star first half.  Jeter will be elected, despite hitting just .276 with a .333 OBP and a .381 slugging percentage – all numbers well below his career averages.  Despite being a Yankee Hater, I respect and admire

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Sorry for the Blog Pause--went out of town to the wedding of a friend of mine, but now I'm back and back strong, to conclude my review of the unsung heroes of the 1961 Yankees infield. We're finishing with that all-important position of shortstop, Tony Kubek, who was an anchor for that 1961 team, both in the field and at the plate. He's also one of the great woulda-coulda-shoulda players, someone that many argue would have been one of the greatest Yankee shortstops ever, had his career not been cut short by injury.

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Boggs' career, and shaped the future of a spindly shorstop who'd committed 54 errors in the minors: Derek Jeter.

So when you watch the Yankee captain pick one from deep in the hole and make a

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The Yankees have had many World Series champs, and many more All-Star players and all-time lineups. The 1927 Yankees pretty much set the bar for everyone else to follow, but there were some other memorable ones, too. The '36 Yanks, the first year of Joltin' Joe, and the last great one from Lou Gehrig, along with typically solid contributions by Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri and the usual cast of star Yankees.

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