Is Jeter Worth 19 mill?

[Gary Armida]

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Jeter is right up there with Bonds, and Please Jeter never cheating to get where he is, he wroked hard for it, unlike the Cheating *** Bonds, so please with all that. Come back when Bonds says he cheated, and when he wins a ring.

You took the words right out of my mouth. As I was reading this thread and I saw that comment, that is exactly what I was thinking. Does Jeter put up 19 million dollar stats, no? Is a good, steady, clutch player? Yes. Is he the face of the richest franchise in sports, yes? Is he perhaps the most squeaky clean player in sports (along with Tom Brady and Labron), yes? For all of those factors and the time period when he signed his deal is why he makes 19 Million. I would take him over any steriods influenced homerun hitter any time.

[glucklich]

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He is on the north side of 30 and plays SS not 1B. Plus he has shown an unwillingness to change positions. Since he is over 30, who knows how much longer he will have the necessary range to effectively play SS. His marketability only exists as long as he is perceived to be capable on the field and who knows how much longer it will be so as a SS.

[Misfit]

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He just has a good reputation compared to him. If you haven't met Bonds, you really can't say **** about him. He's a big family man (don't even start with the divorces, I don't want to hear it), and he's only loyal to those that won't be arrogant to him. I'm guessing the media is in the "arrogant" category.

Jeter has been a captain on the Yankees and has been with them for 9 World Series appearances. I can't necessarily say that he "led" them there, but he is the captain... so say what you will.

So I'm guessing you're buddies with Bonds so you can say stuff about his character? It's a two way street, if people can't say he's a jerk then you can't come in and say he's a family man and such.

To the Yankees, Jeter may be worth 19 million because their pockets are almost limitless. What's another 19 million to them? If he is on any other team though, then he would have a bad contract. And comparing him to other players at his position would yield the same thing since the general consensus in baseball is that Miguel Tejada is the best shortstop and he makes notably less money than Derek Jeter.

[CoRruPt-]

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Jeter is worth whatever an owner is willing to pay him.

It's hard to compare salaries when players signed them in different years.

Not only is he an excellent player on the field, but he also helps bring in revenue like tickets sold, merchandise, etc....

It would hardly make a difference if Jeter was a Yankee or not. At least on the financial side of things. Fans will still flock to see the Yanks play, and George will pick up any big name FA he could point to with his finger to replace that 'void'.

[Ckhoss29]

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No he is not worth it at this point in his career. I too find that players salaries got way out of whack those years. But then again the yankees were over-paying everyone at that time, look at moose's contract that is an absolute joke the guy has never won 20 games.

As for SS right now I would take Tejada, Peralta, A-Rod(who really is still a SS), Michael Young over Jeter any day of the week and Tejada is making $12m and Peralta of course is making young player money which I hope changes soon.

[keRplunK]

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Jeter is worth nothing close to 19 million, but who cares when they can spend 500 billion on the team. Sometimes I want to see Bill Gates buy the Seattle Mariners and really have some fun. It would be pretty funny when they would end up winning the world series every single year.

[glucklich]

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Jeter is worth nothing close to 19 million, but who cares when they can spend 500 billion on the team. Sometimes I want to see Bill Gates buy the Seattle Mariners and really have some fun. It would be pretty funny when they would end up winning the world series every single year.

As bizarre as it sounds, I get the feeling S'brenner would even outspend Gates.

[keRplunK]

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As bizarre as it sounds, I get the feeling S'brenner would even outspend Gates.

I think he would try.

Well, Alex, will you accept our 300 million 10 year contract?

"I would, but Mr. Gates gave me a 15 year deal worth a few billion, sorry."

Like one of my favorite stand up comedians once said, "He has so much money that he could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses."

[glucklich]

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I think he would try.

Well, Alex, will you accept our 300 million 10 year contract?

"I would, but Mr. Gates gave me a 15 year deal worth a few billion, sorry."

Like one of my favorite stand up comedians once said, "He has so much money that he could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses."

Why would he do that?

[keRplunK]

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Why would he do that?

Dude, it's a joke. Louis C.K. is a comedian.

[Gary Armida]

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Plus he has shown an unwillingness to change positions.

When did he show an unwillingness? He was never really asked.

[Blzer]

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When did he show an unwillingness? He was never really asked.

IMO it's better for baseball if he stays at his position anyway (if that makes sense).

What I mean is... what's the point of having a specialty position player if you can place somebody there that's better than him offensively? Now, the case is with Nomar moving to 1B. A while back it was Mike Piazza. What's the point of utility players if managers feel that it's okay if there are a few errors or unmade plays by their new guys [as long as the runs produce]?

It just... I can't say that it questions the integrity of the game... but it gets rid of that feel on how some players worked their entire life to dominate a position, and then some other player woke up one morning and said, "Hey, I'm going go ahead and try out this position... it doesn't look that hard."

[glucklich]

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When did he show an unwillingness? He was never really asked.

How do you know this? Were you a fly on the wall? One of the sticking points of getting ARod was that going to the Yankees came with the necessity to switch to 3B. Does that sound like Jeter was willing to switch?

[catcatch22]

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For the guys who keep saying no one ball player should get millions of dollars, then don't go to games, don't buy sports games and don't watch sports. Then those billionaire owners won't have money to pay a few million to the players.

[keRplunK]

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For the guys who keep saying no one ball player should get millions of dollars, then don't go to games, don't buy sports games and don't watch sports. Then those billionaire owners won't have money to pay a few million to the players.

I think you missed the point. It's not that they shouldn't get paid millions of dollars based upon the economic system that is set up, it's just on principle they shouldn't get paid the crazy amount of money. And that's pretty unarguable. I'm not saying they shouldn't get paid like this in real life, things are set up because they evolved overtime this way.

Hitting baseball good, shouldn't = millions of dollars in any society.

Playing any game good, shouldn't = millions of dollars.

But that's how the world works.