Baseball Season Is Here: Question of the Day: Was Derek Jeter Overrated?

I maintain he would have never had the career he had if he was drafted by the Pirates, Marlins, Rockies or As!
His entire career he was surrounded by teams of luxury-tax free agents!
(The best that $$$ could buy!)
If he was drafted by a 100-loss team like the Pirates, Marlins, Rockies or As ... his career would have taken an entirely different trajectory!

... Hmmmm. ... Hmmm.... Reckon that's all food fer thought, mate.
But the heavy lot of blokes are lucky like that.

... Jeter's Yankee sides surely did WIN a 'andful of Championships.
... Rather difficult for me to claim that He's over-rated.

#### Salty

Certainly being in New York with the Yankees helped Jeter immensely. If you want to compare it to a potential superstar getting drafted by a 100 loss team, we could look at Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh. A Cy Young with a 10-10 record but an ERA of 1.97. The classic getting no offensive support from your team.I'm a Mets fan, but Skenes got no help from his center fielder (cost him at least 4 runs) on opening day.

I don’t know if he was overrated, but when I think of the players on those team I’d least want to face, he wasn’t one of them.