Chicago, IL- Around the league, many fans of baseball don't respect the Yankees. It's pretty reasonable why so many people hate the team due to the fact that the Yankees have won twenty-seven World Series championships, and maintain a team full of superstars everyday in the lineup. Whether a fan of the Yankees or not, respect has to be given to Derek Jeter.
Through his nineteen-year career so far, Derek has maintained a .312 career average, became a member of the 3,000 hit club, been an All-Star thirteen times, won five World Series championships, been a World Series MVP, won a Rookie of the Year award, earned five gold glove awards, and has earned many other achievements to put him into Cooperstown. With all these accomplishments, he has only been with one team: the New York Yankees.
Announcing his retirement prior to the 2014 season, Derek Jeter showed no sad emotions. Many teams have given him gifts such as the number two from the scoreboard the Cubs gave to him yesterday. Like Mariano Rivera, Jeter has been a huge part of Yankee history, and many clubs will recognize his achievements as he plays on the road this year.
Today, marks the last day Derek Jeter will appear in a game at Wrigley Field. So far this season, the fourty-year old had put together a .275 batting average with one home run and eight runs batted in. It's not like Jeter's usually numbers, but it's solid compared to many shortstops around the league this season. So before Jeter comes up to bat for the last time on the North Side in pinstripes, give him an applause for the entertainment he has brought to Major League Baseball and it's fans
-Daniel (DanielDoreCTC)
-(Stats credited to baseball-reference.com)
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