Derek Jeter wasn't the first player with an inside-out swing, but he may as well have patented it over 20 years in the Bronx, during which he made it cool to stay in the strike zone, to single somewhat softly, to spray.
Nearly 70 percent of Jeter's 3,465 hits went to center or right field, and like so many Y2K kids, Khris Davis was watching. The A's slugger was 13 when the 2001 World Series brought Jeter, at the height of his celebrity and skills, near his Arizona home. Sometime that autumn between "The Flip" and Byung-Hyun Kim, Davis found the player he wanted to model himself after.