Jeter's success was no doubt aided by being surrounded in those lineups by nearly every steroid abuser in baseball history.
When the talk about cutting FredEx started, I immediately thought of a different AL East SS, Nomar Garciaparra. Universally loved, Sawx fans lost their ever loving minds when Nomar was traded in '04. But objectively, it made sense to get rid of him and we all know what happened that fall.