So, accoriding to the NY Daily News, the Yankees are going to let Derek Jeter “test the free agent market” huh?

Interesting stuff considering Jeter is only 74 hits away from 3000 hits for his career. And did I mention that no Yankee has ever reached 3000 hits? The Yankees career leader in hits is Lou Gehrig with 2,721 hits.

Just imagine how sweet the juice would be if Derek Jeter were to leave the dark side, come to the Red Sox and get his 3000th hit in a Red Sox uniform.

That wouldn’t necessarily heal the pain of seeing Wade Boggs leave the Red Sox to win a World Series with the Yankees or seeing Roger Clemens leave the Red Sox to eventually ending up in New York as a World Series champion.

But it would feel pretty damn good.  And it would be great for NESNs ratings.  Derek Jeter getting his 3000th hit as a member of the Red Sox would probably break ratings records for NESN.

Jeter batted .270 with 10 home runs and 67 RBI in 2010. Those numbers are very similar current Red Sox short stop Marco Scutaro who batter .275 with 11 homeruns and 56 RBI.  So he wouldnt be much of an upgrade statistically.

BUT wouldn’t it be worth the extra $10 million a year in salary to stick it to the Yankees?

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