Oct 07
Rob Neyer highlights Ian O’Connor’s feature on this today. A snip:
On the recommendation of [Derek] Jeter’s agent, Casey Close, [performance trainer Jason] Riley pieced together a program of drills, and the shortstop started performing them in the first week of January 2008. Cone drills. Shuffle drills. Resistance drills.
Well, it’s not up there with having nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills, etc.
But, it seems that these drills have done Jeter good, no?
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October 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
But, it seems that these drills have done Jeter good, no?
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Yeah, I’d say so. It’s probably a lot of things (hitter-friendly ballpark, better defensive positioning, slightly improved pitching staff, etc.) but it’s certainly not a bad thing for an old dog to work hard to stay in shape in order to run with the young pups that normally man the shortstop position.
Kudos to Jeter for working hard in the off-season. Hopefully he keeps it up and has another great year next year.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Saw Jete doing some of these at Himes Complex in Tampa in mid-Jan. Probably helped, but healing up his leg and hand injuries from last year mattered as much as anything. Plenty of life left in him.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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