You don’t have to ask New York Yankees fans, pretty much all of baseball (outside of Boston) knows that Derek Jeter is a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee. Will he become the second unanimous inductee into the hall, following his teammate Mariano Rivera? Only time will truly tell.
But it’s big because the Modern Baseball Era Committee (formerly the Veterans Committee) has an opportunity to induct the one Yankee EVERYONE agrees should have been in the Hall of Fame long before now. And by everybody, even Boston fans think he should have been inducted.