Jeter understood the path to sustained winning in Miami would involve painful and unpopular decisions and years of not winning. But he thought it could be done by Year 5 of a five-year contract.
To be around the dynastic Yankees was to know they had talent. But they had more – something that steeled them and inflated their confidence and kept them hungry even as they were recording great achievements.
Among the issues, sources say, is that Jeter went into the lockout believing team chairman Bruce Sherman had approved the spending of another $10 million-$15 million on player whenever transactions begin again. And that plan was reversed, in Jeter’s understanding. Jeter did not only see that as reneging on a promise, but as a statement against the build up to try to win – and Jeter was biding the bad times to satisfy his passion to ultimately win.
There is nothing in Jeter’s four-plus-year term to suggest he was as gifted at being the face, brains and soul of an organization in the way that he was near instantly as the 21-year-old shortstop of the Yankees.His tenure will be marked by good and bad and it is possible that the most vital act Jeter orchestrated for the Marlins was redirecting most of Giancarlo Stanton’s contract off of Miami’s books and onto the Yankees’.
Jeter ran the day-to-day baseball and business operations of an organization that, executives from other clubs say, was beset by needs for money calls and infighting. Sherman was said not to be pleased by both the business direction of the club and also that there was ego in play here – that Sherman was the main money man, yet was obscured by Jeter as the face of the franchise.The infighting mainly surrounded Jeter’s handpicked VP of player development and scouting, Gary Denbo.
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