Error 0:
It didn’t take Dick Groch long to see Derek Jeter wasn’t an average high school prospect when he first saw him at an All-Star camp in Michigan before Jeter’s junior year.
“When you’re looking at young players, some are Chevys and sometimes you see a Lexus,’’ said Groch, the former Yankees scout who helped the Yankees draft and sign the shortstop with the No. 6 pick in 1992. “He was a major league player. You could see he could be a dominating player.”
And it’s why, in the days leading up to that draft — when there was still some question whether Jeter would attend the University of Michigan instead of signing to play professionally — that Groch made his most famous statement in his decades as a scout with the Yankees, Brewers and Expos.