NEW YORK — Again at Yankee Stadium and listening to the cheers at age 49, Derek Jeter had some recommendation for the group he led to 5 titles.
“I am engaged on rebranding the identify Previous-Timers’ to one thing else,” he mentioned. “Whenever you’re taking part in, once you’re on the bench and also you’re watching the sport, and you might by no means see your self being launched at Previous-Timers’, since you do not ever assume you are going to get outdated, which — we’re not outdated, proper? We’re not outdated. Older. However, man, it is a particular feeling. The followers, what makes this group nice is the respect that they’ve for the historical past.”
The previous Yankees captain attended his first Previous-Timers’ Day on Saturday as New York celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1998 group that received 125 video games. He was launched final, identical to Joe DiMaggio was once. A recording of late public tackle announcer Bob Sheppard boomed: “Now batting, No. 2, Derek Jeter.”
Jeter retired after the 2014 season with 3,465 hits, sixth on the profession listing. His quantity, the final of the Yankees’ accessible single digits, was retired in 2017 and he was voted to the Corridor of Fame three years later when he was picked on 396 of 397 ballots. After serving because the Miami Marlins‘ CEO from September 2017 to February 2022, he joined Fox’s baseball protection.
Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera — fellow members of the Core 4 — joined the reunion together with former supervisor Joe Torre. Bernie Williams was absent following shoulder substitute surgical procedure on Thursday however recorded a short video message.
Torre understood fan disappointment within the present Yankees, who entered the day 70-71 and in peril of their first dropping season since 1992. Some supporters have directed anger to present supervisor Aaron Boone — just a few boos have been directed at Boone when he was launched.
“Whenever you agree to do that job, and I believe Derek referred to it, in regards to the expectations right here, they’re sky excessive,” Torre mentioned at a information convention, flanked by the Core 4. “No getting round it. You are going to must cope with it and perceive that there is at all times that cloud that is going to hold over when issues go badly. And simply from what I get chatting with Boonie and seeing him every now and then, he is dealing with it very well. He is on the market, he is working arduous and that is all you’ll be able to actually do. They’ve had some dangerous breaks, however that is not an excuse once you’re a member of the Yankees. You are anticipated to win. And, as I say, when he signed up for it, he knew what he was stepping into.”
Jeter’s message to the present group was concise.
“Win. It is that easy,” he mentioned. “We’re not eradicated, so that you exit, you win one recreation, one recreation at a time.”
In addition to the 1998 Yankees, 2009 World Sequence MVP Hideki Matsui was launched together with a number of members of the 1978 title 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 have been additionally launched as a part of an occasion that started in 1947 when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth first appeared.
