Baseball legend Derek Jeter is one of the best players ever to play for the New York Yankees. Jeter is one of the very few players in Major League Baseball history, who have played for a single team throughout their career. Recently, a report revealed that even before he had joined the Yankees team, a scout declared him as an MLB star and ‘a Yankee’.

There is no denying that not only for the Yankees, but Derek Jeter left his mark in baseball history. When Jeter retired from baseball in the 2014 season, the New York Yankees retired his jersey number to honor their club icon.

Yankees scout predicted Derek Jeter’s future

It was during the 1992 season when the Yankees drafted Jeter as a first-round pick. At that time, Dick Groch was one of the Yankees scouts who had discovered Derek Jeter from his high school in Michigan.

Two months before the Yankees picked Derek Jeter, Groch had prepared a detailed report about Jeter’s playing capabilities. In this, he had predicted the future of Derek Jeter. Groch in his free-agent report summarized Jeter as an MLB star and a Yankee.

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“A Yankee! A five-tool player will be a MLB star,” said the Yankees’ scout in his report.

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Derek Jeter for the Yankees

The Yankees drafted Jeter in 1992, and three years later he made his Major League Baseball debut in the 1995 season. He went on to play 20 years for the Yankees in MLB until Jeter announced his retirement in the 2014 season. Last year in September, the Yankees legend also got his Hall of Fame induction.

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During his 20 years at the Yankees, Jeter led them five-time to the World Series title. This also includes a hat-trick of World Series title from the 1998 to 2000 season. Interestingly, the last time Yankees won a World Series was in 2009 when Derek Jeter was part of the team. Since then the Yankees have not won a single World Series title. However, they still hold the record of winning the most number of World Series titles in MLB.