Did The Yankees Really Just Allow Derek Jeter To Be A Free Agent

I keep telling myself this is a non-story, and it probably is. Yeah sure, Derek Jeter is a free agent, but he's not going anywhere else, right? There's no way he can leave the Yankees a good season away from 3,000 hits, and there's no real way they can not sign him back to do that. So there's no story here, right?

Well, here's the story I see: Him, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettitte, three of the cornerstones of the 2009 World Champions, and three legends (with five rings a pop), all reached Free Agency. This makes zero sense, and it looks disrespectful. Maybe they are a lot closer than we all think, but even so, this seems almost like a sin. I guess we'll see how things go.