Brian Cashman Tells Derek Jeter To Pound Sand

I’d rather sign Orlando Hudson to a short term contract, if we’re going free agent shopping. We at least know that Hudson can play 2B. Jeter would have to learn that position at a time when he should be thinking about hanging up his glove.

before anything else if he really wanted to stick it to junior

Yankees did this with Pettite, Bernie Williams, even Joe Torre. they’re not in the business of giving sweetheart contracts to fading stars, even Jeter. they know they can live without Jeter, and that Jeter can’t live without them

Doesn’t matter. Francessa just announced ’ No issue here. they’ll get it done and Jeter will sign’.

I’ll pass.

no, but if i did, $2million for 1 year with a vesting option He can have Cora’s job.

While it’s still too much money for Jeter, I do get the feeling that somewhere George Weiss is smiling. There’s some room in baseball for sentimentality, but there isn’t much.

I think Jeter has no intention of going anywhere but back to the Yankees.

I’d give him a decent amount of money for a one-year deal. He had a .390 wOBA in 2009. I wouldn’t expect anything near that next year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s significantly better at the plate than he was this past season, especially if he made the switch to the NL. He’d almost certainly be better than any of our internal options at second, and there aren’t a whole lot of other free agents second basemen who are going to definitely be better than him (if any). Add in the fact that Yankees fans would be miserable, and the fact that Jeter is a "winner"* and I don’t see why not. I wouldn’t give him any kind of multi-year deal though, unless you so heavily frontloaded the contract that moving or releasing him after a year would be a piece of cake.

*Whether clubhouse chemistry exists or not, Jeter has a rep as a winning ballplayer. Coming to the Mets, it either plays out that chemistry does exist, and Jeter infects the Mets clubhouse with his winning ways, or the Mets lack of talent helps prove that Jeter was only a winner because he played on the Yankees. Win/win.

Sure, for like a year and $5 million. That’s what he’s worth when all the calm-eyes, aura and mystique bullshit is stripped away.

Here are all the situations with a Yankees fan response.

If Jeter is bad and Mets are bad: “Well the Mets suck anyway and they rubbed off on him.”

If Jeter is good and Mets are bad: “The Mets suck, but Jeter is still a beast, look at his ringzzz!”

If Jeter is good and Mets are good: “See, its because of Jeter that the Mets did good! He turned the franchise around!”

If Jeter is bad and Mets are good: “See, its because of Jeter that the Mets did good! He turned the franchise around!”

and I could get past the fact that he’s Jeter, it would be a complete season-long soap opera that would overwhelm everything else going on. While it would be fun to watch the Yankees fans implode, the whole thing would turn really tiresome very quickly.

i’d rather see Jeter in the minors. it’s time he leaves te league. The buffalo bisons would take him

… but I’d say yes, just ’cuz it would queer the relationship between Jeter and Yankee-dom more than any other eventuality—short of the Red Sox signing him.

I’d rather eat my own scrotum than have jeter on mets

I was breaking the salesman’s chops by wearing my Tradition Field tee, and my Mets wind breaker.

Little did I know that this would mean Jeter playing for the Mets.

LOL

If he ticks Jeter off enough Jeter could leave he won’t get 50 million but the Yankees need to realize that Jeter still draws huge crowds. Losing Jeter would eliminate a ton of good faith and the connection to the dynasty years. Jeter won’t play for the Red Sox but the Braves(young team needing a veteran to lead) or a team like the Angels I can see that if this continues.

when Steinbrenner produces a son with brains and balls of stone.

the Yankee fans are all up in arms, saying that that the NYY FO has “insulted” him with 3/45.

By the same token, no player is worth more than his value to the team. A little bonus for Yankee iconhood, I understand, but he’s only a Yanker icon because of a lot of bonuses over time. He turned down this latest bonus because he doesn’t get that the Yankees have given him thank you money since his first contract. He thinks he was worth his last deal

More reasons to hate all things Yankee

I guess he’s come to believe his own headlines, this guy’s not worth anything near 15 Mil per year – he’s lucky to even have that offer on the table. Not to mention the millions more he makes for playing in NYC in ads and sponsorships…he’s not getting a whiff of that in any other market. I hate to admit it but even the Ynks are being sensible here. If the Mets ever signed him I’d stop being a Mets fan that same day.

Cashman knows nobody else is going to offer 3/45, nobody would likely even offer him one year at that price.