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Suddenly, Derek Jeter isn't nearly as washed up as he was supposed to be, doesn't feel the kind of hand on his back that Jorge Posada feels these days, even when Posada is going good. Suddenly, Jeter doesn't have to be dropped more than one spot in the batting order to save the Yankees, and we don't wonder if the Yankees are better with the kid, Eduardo Nuñez, at short. And we aren't skipping ahead to where we have to move Jeter when we have to move him off shortstop.
Suddenly, Jeter has a stretch where he looks like Jeter again and the piling on, some of it from the Yankees themselves, that began last winter has stopped, at least for the time being. People thought you were nuts a couple of months ago if you even suggested, as I did, that Jeter might get to .300...
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