What wasn’t said spoke loudest as Derek Jeter introduced himself to Miami on Tuesday.
The former Yankees great, now in charge of running the Marlins as frontman for the new ownership group, conveyed affable charm to a media throng at Marlins Park. He spoke with close-to-the-vest caution. He was not especially illuminating. Neither was he pandering. He did not make populist promises he knew he might not be prepared to keep.
You wanted a cheer-inducing declaration that the days of fire sales and low-player payrolls were over? You didn’t get it.
You wanted the relief of an unequivocal assurance that high-priced star Giancarlo Stanton, fresh off his 59-home run season, would remain a Marlin?