Derek Jeter spent 20 years playing shortstop under the weight of pinstripes and glare of New York.
He has never been in a tougher position than the one he’s in now.
The man who fashioned a Hall of Fame career as the imprimatur of winning and success — helping earn 17 playoff appearances and five World Series titles — is now in the baseball basement as the front man trying to set the public framework for the Miami Marlins.
We saw again this week what a difficult spot that is as Jeter, the team’s CEO, tries to convince Marlins fans to believe and to come to the ballpark to watch a team he and principal owner Bruce Sherman gutted in a massive ground-up rebuild.