Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeteris an American former professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a central figure of the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding, and leadership. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits, doubles, games played, stolen bases, times on base, plate appearancesand at bats. His accolades include 14 All-Star selections, five Gold...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1974
CityPequannock, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
It shouldn't be satisfying for anyone. We don't play just to make it to the playoffs. We've been to the playoffs before. We play to win. We came up short.
The Rocket is close to his family. He really enjoys spending a lot of time with his kids. I think that's part of the reason why when he came back, he came back to Houston. He has the luxury of being at home.
From what I understand he never mentioned my name. My name was brought into it, but it never came out of his mouth.
He was hot and it came at the right time.
I didn't have any idea. I didn't sit down and read the whole rulebook before I came here.
I remember coming up. I came up in May first and then I came back up in September. A lot of times, you're a little skeptical to say things and do things because you're around some different guys. So I always try to go out of my way to make sure everyone feels comfortable. You want everyone to feel a part of the team.
I didn't think it was that bad. It wasn't worse than Rocket when he came back. What do you expect them to do? Think about it. You don't expect them to cheer for him.
You can't take anyone for granted. ... One good pitching performance and you're in trouble. It's good. We got a little help last night. Then we came out and we did what we needed to do today.
We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break,
We're familiar with them and they're familiar with us, so the best team over the next five games will win.
We have no excuses. We got all the breaks to get to this point. We had our chance.
We've won it before, and anything short of that is failure. You don't work the whole off-season, spring training and six months of games to finish second or third. If you don't win, you should feel it's a failure.
We know we can't rely on scoring all those runs. We know it's great to have some guys that are swinging the bats well, and we're going to score. But it's not going to happen all season.
Wakefield was probably as good as I've seen him. His ball was moving all over the place. We could have been out there for another three hours and I don't think we'd have gotten any more hits off him.