NEW YORK — Again at Yankee Stadium and listening to the thank you at while 49, Derek Jeter had some recommendation for the group he led to 5 titles.
“I’m working on rebranding the name Old-Timers’ to something else,” he stated. “When you’re playing, when you’re on the bench and you’re watching the game, and you could never see yourself being introduced at Old-Timers’, because you don’t ever think you’re going to get old, which — we are not old, right? We’re not old. Older. But, man, it’s a special feeling. The fans, what makes this organization great is the respect that they have for the history.”
The previous Yankees captain attended his first Worn-Timers’ Era on Saturday as Untouched York celebrated the twenty fifth yearly of the 1998 group that received 125 video games. He was once offered extreme, similar to Joe DiMaggio impaired to be. A recording of past due people deal with announcer Bob Sheppard boomed: “Now batting, number two, Derek Jeter.”
Jeter retired later the 2014 season with 3,465 hits, 6th at the profession listing. His quantity, the extreme of the Yankees’ to be had unmarried digits, was once retired in 2017 and he was once voted to the Corridor of Status 3 years then when he was once picked on 396 of 397 ballots. Nearest serving because the Miami Marlins’ CEO from September 2017 to February 2022, he’s joined Fox’s baseball protection.
Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera — fellow contributors of the Core 4 — joined the reunion along side former supervisor Joe Torre. Bernie Williams was once absent following shoulder alternative surgical operation on Thursday however recorded a temporary video message.
Torre understood fan unhappiness within the tide Yankees, who entered the presen 70-71 and at risk in their first shedding season since 1992. Some supporters have directed rage to tide supervisor Aaron Boone — a couple of boos had been directed at Boone when he was once offered.
“When you agree to do this job, and I think Derek referred to it, about the expectations here, they’re sky high,” Torre stated at a information convention, flanked by way of the Core 4. “No getting around it. You’re going to have to deal with it and understand that there’s always that cloud that’s going to hang over when things go badly. And just from what I get chatting with Boonie and seeing him from time to time, he’s handling it really well. He’s out there, he’s working hard and that’s all you can really do. They’ve had some bad breaks but that’s not an excuse when you’re a member of the Yankees. You’re expected to win. And, as I say, when he signed up for it, he knew what he was getting into.”
Jeter’s message to the tide group was once concise.
“Win. It’s that simple,” he stated. “We’re not eliminated, so you go out, you win one game, one game at a time.”
But even so the 1998 Yankees, 2009 International Layout MVP Hideki Matsui was once offered along side a number of contributors of the 1978 name group, together with Bucky Dent, Ron Guidry, Roy White and Mickey Rivers.
The widows of Corridor of Famer Whitey Ford, five-time supervisor Billy Martin and captain Thurman Munson had been additionally offered as a part of an tournament that started in 1947 when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth first seemed.
