51 million for 3000 hits

By Frank Solares

My first thought is, who cares how much money he is paid. Who cares if he will end up at short or not. WE GOT OUR CAPTAIN BACK!!!

It’s not my money, it’s not my team, and my baseball IQ is the lowest in the world. That said I would have given Jeter a blank check and would have told him to pick a phone number and make him a minority owner, with only one condition, that his baseball career end in 3 years and then he move into the front office.

He is arguably the face of the Yankees, his legacy might not reach the Berra, Mantle, Ruth, or Dimaggio section of Monument Park but his is an Icon and the face of the organization.

Derek is my second favorite Yankee of all time and despite what you might read in the papers, he is a big reason why I and others go to Yankee Stadium and why we pay all that money to watch him play. I was in a road game with my child in Atlanta and half the Park was filled with Yankee fans and about half of them wore his famous number 2 Jersey.

True Yankee fans don’t care how much money Jete got as long as he hits 3000 in a Yankee uniform. The only Yankee in the History of the sport to accomplish that, the all time hit leader in his position.

Taking a lighter side of his 3 year 51 million dollar contract, we focused on what the Yankees got for that money.

At 51 million the Yankees purchased the rights to have him finish his career as a Yankee, as well as insure that he hit 3000 in pinstripes. 74 hits away from that great accomplishment, for every hit he gets until 3000 the Yankees will pay $689,189.

Compared to The American I-dl got 30 million for 9 victories for a total of $3,333,333 for each victory. Or if you want to take it one step further AJ has been paid
33,000,000 for only 1 win in postseason. I can fill 10 pages with examples at the end of the day No one else is Derek.

Regardless of the amount paid to Jeter just remember that he ranks 36 Career all time with 2926 hits, no one has ever accused him of Roids (specially how he has declined) he is not in the news for doing something stupid and he is The face of the Franchise.

I am glad our Captain will be a Yankee for at least 3 more years, so that I can watch him retire with 3301 hits.