Oh and by the way, the Bears stomped your Eagles! WOOOOOO!

Waiter, can I have some crow with that horse-meat and velveeta sandwich? Thank you.

Look, Craig can write a million articles on Jeter’s contract. He can say that Jeter needs another team bidding on his services. But he would be totally WRONG on that front. You guys can continue to spout Jeter’s WAR the last 4 years. You guys can continue to worry about what Jeter’s BA, OBP, xFIP, Dewan, blah blah blah.

Here’s the magic # when it comes to Jeter…at least in JETER’S EYES…74. That’s the magic number. 74. What is 74? 74 is the number of hits Jeter needs to do something that NO OTHER YANKER HAS EVER DONE. Get 3,000 hits in the pinstripes. Period(LOL).

And for that, he is bidding against one man…one contract…one “legend”. That man is Alex Rodriguez, or “A-Rod”. A-Rod will be getting $30 million dollars for taking 5 swings of the bat. For hitting his steroid-tainted #660, 714, 755, 763 and 764 home runs. $6 million each. And they want to pay Jeter as much for the next two years that they are going to pay A-Rod for 5 swings? Bleh.

Yeah, they are trying not to make another contract mistake but why are they starting with Derek Jeter? El Capitan? He helped bring 5 World Series titles to the Yankers. 5 rings. And what’s he get for it? Fiscal sanity for one of the first times in Yanker history? Bleh.

Craig, please don’t stop talkin’ Jeter until we’ve raised the zombie horse from the dead and subsequently kill it again with a steak through it’s undead horse heart.

where as he has 1 bad season in 16 and that’s all people are harping on, totally discrediting a hall of fame career.

For the umpteenth time, what is so difficult about getting you guys to understand that ’10 wasn’t a one time bad season, and ’09 was indicative of the true talent level of [his worshipfullness] Derek Jeter:

fWAR:
’07 – 3.5
’08 – 3.7
’09 – 7.1
’10 – 2.5

as the song goes, one of these things is not like the other. one of these things just doesn’t belong. Since ’06, where he had a legimate argument for MVP (Mauer should have won, not Morneau), his K rate has dropped but so has his BB rate (most likely because he’s swinging at more pitches early in the count). His power has dropped from a .140ish ISO to .100. While he’s hitting fewer LDs, he’s increasing his GB% which goes for hits more often, but less power [obviously]. His BABIP was significantly less than the prior year, but even a correction in that isn’t going to get him back to a 5+WAR levels. 3/45M is more than enough if he returns to a 3-4WAR/yr player, but even that isn’t guaranteed.

I don’t understand the argument that, since guys get “ridiculous” contracts coming off a good walk year, Jeter should also get a ridiculous contract coming off a bad walk year. Ridiculous contracts are bad, no? That’s what makes them ridiculous.

As for the errors, sorry, but I felt that it was better for people to engage your point rather than to take shots at your writing mechanics, so I thought I was doing you a favor. My note about the edits was in the interests of transparency, and I do it every time I reproduce a reader comment or email.

I and many others, including Jeter’s camp, feel he’s closer to 2009 than 2010 and that 1 bad year shouldn’t define a player’s worth.

Why though? Looking at his last 4 years, ’09 is obviously the outlier and not ’10. If he’s a 3WAR player for the next 3-4 years, a $15M/yr deal is overpaying him by about 5-6M. Say the difference is for non-production value, but no way he’s worth beyond that. Also, all those performance bonuses are not allowed by the CBA (BA, HR, etc).