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...Jeter should not be playing shortstop. Bernie Williams should not be playing the outfield under any circumstances. Giambi can barely move at first base. Jorge Posada is a below-average defensive catcher...
...tell myself. Alex Rodriguez is the best player in the game. Jason Giambi will hit 40 homers, like always. Javier Vazquez and Kevin Brown are improvements over Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens. The Yanks’ bullpen is way better this year than it was last year. Derek Jeter is just in a mini-slump. Come September, the Yankees will be flying five games ahead of Boston, as always...
...baseball--who, if his career lasts long enough, could break nearly every lifetime hitting record--is not only in his first big-market spotlight but also in a brand-new position. Since his job at shortstop was already taken by the beloved if defensively inferior Yankees captain Derek Jeter, ARod, desperate to abandon the train-wreck Texas Rangers, agreed to play third. More challenging than standing 40 feet closer to the batter will be playing in an atmosphere where anything other than a World Series victory is considered failure. If he can succeed at that, the sport's best player...
...first potential trap for ARod is his relationship with Jeter, with whom he'll have to share attention, already Topic A among New York City's sports press. The two have known each other since their teens, but their relationship was strained after an Esquire story in which A-Rod said that, unlike him, Jeter didn't have to carry the burden of being the toughest out in his lineup. Jeter says that the two are friends and that, freed from the public, A-Rod is less uptight. "He fooled you with that one. He's not all that serious...
...Yankees have been major disappointments, and it’s always glossed over. They spend one hundred billion dollars and need a miracle play by Derek Jeter to defeat the $40 million...