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2011 New York Yankees: Why Is Derek Jeter Leading Off?

Spring Training press report didn't have much to say. Joe Girardi said the platitudes, as did Brian Cashman.

Not much except for this:

“We signed (Derek Jeter) to be our shortstop and we signed him to be our leadoff hitter,” Girardi said. “And he’s got a pretty good track history of what he’s done in the game of baseball. He had a couple of rough months last year. The month of September he was back to being Derek, I thought. I’m not really too concerned about him as our leadoff hitter."

Okay, one question. Why?

In almost every single way, Brett Gardner is the perfect leadoff man over Derek Jeter.

As for Girardi's comment about Jeter being back to his old self in September, ...

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