This suit was juuust a bit outside.
A failed Yankees prospect who never got out of High-A ball claimed in a rambling, eight-figure lawsuit against the Bombers that the club conspired to keep him from reaching the Majors — all “to protect the career of Derek Jeter.”
Garrison Lassiter, 30, registered a lowly .244 batting average with just four home runs across parts of five minor-league seasons as a third-baseman, but the real reason his career stalled, he claims, is because Jeter was out to get him.
Lassiter, who played from 2008 through 2012, was kept down “ALL IN EFFORT TO PROTECT CAREER OF DEREK JETER SHORTSTOP OF NEW YORK YANKEES,” he claimed in the disjointed suit, filed in federal court in North Carolina in December 2018 only to be dismissed by a judge in May 2019.