PLAYER OF THE WEEK

This weeks Player of the week goes to. (Insert Drum roll here)

Derek Jeter (and the crowd goes wild)

If someone told you at the beginning of this season that with only 4o ish games left in the season Derek Jeter would be batting .334 with 16 HR and 57 RBI’s with an OBP of .398 and a .479 slugging %  you would have told them that they were insane. But thats Derek Jeter he does the unlikely. All season long I have been listening to people say that Jeter wont be able to Play SS for more than another year. They should move him to the Outfield, blah blah blah. Well kids I’m here to tell you ,it’s not going to happen. The theory that Jeter is on the decline doesn’t fly with the numbers that he is putting up. Name one SS in the American League that is a more complete player and you would rather have in the Infield? You cant do it because their isn’t one.  Over the last 11 games Jeter is batting .544 going 22-40 with six three hit games. 2703 hits is the number that Jeter currently has . The Yankee record is held by Lou Gerhig at 2721. I would say that unless he has a meltdown of epic proportions Jeter should be able to get 19 hits over the next 40 games .

Last Sunday on the Joe Girardi show Nancy Newman asked Joe how long Derek would be playing SS for the Yankees. The answer; as long as he wants to.  Derek is only 35 and is the hardest working player you will ever see in your life. If he starts to decline he will prepare harder . I’m predicting that he plays at least 4 more seasons at short. I’m also going with the opinion that Jeter is not only the player of the week but probably the greatest Yankee if not the greatest SS in the history of the game.