And I meant to type “live his life” earlier.

It’s late here where I live.

You can bet he’s been in Cano’s face. But like he said, he doesn’t life his life for the cameras.

Good for him.

Underrated but also somewhat passive/aggressive with that last line.

From Curry on the Times blog:

Two days before Yankees Manager Joe Girardi pulled Robinson Cano from a game for not hustling after a deflected grounder, I asked Derek Jeter how much blame Girardi deserved for Cano’s regression as a player.

Jeter said that managers get blamed for too much and that a player has to be accountable for his own play. Without mentioning Cano by name, I think Jeter was referring to Cano. At some point, Cano is responsible for what Cano does.

When I asked Girardi if he or any of his coaches had gotten in Cano’s face, as former third base coach Larry Bowa said he did, Girardi said they had done a lot of things to try to motivate Cano. Since Jeter is the Yankees’ captain, he should be expected to try to motivate Cano, too.

While Jeter is too guarded to say if he had confronted Cano, he gave an interesting answer about how he is perceived. Jeter has a reputation for being a leader by example and for not being especially vocal.
“I always hear the same thing about myself, ‘He doesn’t get in somebody’s face,’” Jeter said. “Well, how do they know? How does anybody know? Unless I was to tell someone or unless he was to tell someone, nobody is going to know. And you don’t do things for the camera.”

So if Jeter did verbally challenge a teammate?

“I ain’t going to tell you about it,” Jeter said. “And if I yelled at someone, you think the person I yelled at is going to tell you? It’s always baffling because people think they have this perception of how someone is. I don’t do things for the camera. There are people like that.”

God Bless Jeter.