By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
There was a thought that Derek Jeter could have played his final game last season. Not anymore, as the New York Yankees signed their heart and soul player, Derek Jeter to a one-year deal.
This means that the 2013 season would not be his last season. The Yankees agreed with Jeter on a $12 million contract.
During the 2013 season, Jeter played in just 17 games, as 13 starts came at shortstop and four games were as the designated hitter. He had a .190 batting average with one home run and 7 RBIs.
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He missed 145 games due to four different disabled list stints.
Before his 2013 season, he went on the disabled list five other times in his career, missing just 82 games in his first 18 seasons. The 39-year-old Jeter has a .312 batting average with 256 home runs with 1,261 RBIs in 2,602 games.
He has been with the Yankees since the 1995 season and is the oldest member of the team. Since the 1995 season, he won five World Series Championships, with the last one coming during the 2009 season.
He is ninth on Major League Baseball’s all-time hits list and is the active leader with 3,316 hits. He was averaging more than 150 hits in 17 straight seasons (1996-2012), which tied Hank Aaron’s record that he had from 1955 through 1971.
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He is just one of two players in Major League Baseball history, who has 3,000 hits, 250 home runs, 300 stolen bases, and 1,200 RBIs in a career. Willie Mays is the other player to accomplish this feat.
Jeter was named the Yankees team captain on June 3rd, 2003. He was drafted by the Yankees in the first round of the 1992 First-Year Player Draft, where he was drafted sixth overall.
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