MLB All-Star Game: Jeter, top storylines from the first half

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Jun 20, 2014; Bronx, NY, USA; New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter (2) takes the field against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports /

The Derek Jeter goodbye tour The Captain is honored by everyone in baseball in his final season He didn’t want a goodbye tour, but when the best shortstop of our time, let alone the classiest, publicly announces that 2014 will be his last season in baseball, he was going to get one. Besides, baseball can do one more Yankee retirement tour, right? Following in the footsteps of Hall-of-Fame bound closer Mariano Rivera, Yankees captain DerekJeter is playing in hisfinal season in the Majors. The 20-year vet has won five World Series with the Yankees andis beloved by everyone in the game and the rest of the league is letting him know.Jeterhas been showered with gifts from every team on the road, one of the most recent (and coolest) gift being a Les Paul guitar and a Lego portrait from the Indians. Even though the Yanks haven’t had the greatest season in the first half,Jeter is having another solid year at the plate. In his first full season back from his ankle injury he suffered in the 2012ALCS,Jeter is hitting .271 with two home runs and 25 RBI in 82 games with the Yankees so far. Despite the fact he turned 40 last month,Jeter has played 78 of his 82 games at his traditional shortstopposition, playing completely through 66 of them.

The last of the Yankee single digit jerseys will be hung and done at the end of September (or October if the Yanks can make a postseason run).

Don’t miss out on seeing one of the last Yankee, let alone baseball greats we’re going to have for a while.

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