[新聞] Jeter expects change, stands by A-Rod

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http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061025&content_id=1723812&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy Yankees captain says entire team to blame for falling short ST. LOUIS -- Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter -- on hand at Busch Stadium on Wednesday to accept the Hank Aaron Award along with Philadelphia's Ryan Howard as the outstanding offensive players in their respective leagues -- said he anticipates changes on the Yankees' roster for 2007 and believes he has done all he can to show personal support for frequently embattled teammate Alex Rodriguez. "It's easier to keep the team together when you're winning," said Jeter, mobbed by reporters after he stepped away from the presentation table. "It's been five years since we've won. I would expect we'll probably make some changes. "I always said, you don't play the games on paper. It doesn't matter how one game goes, how a team looks -- you have to play the games. You don't get a trophy for saying, 'I think we had the best team.'" Jeter led the Yankees to their ninth consecutive American League East title, but once again they fell short of a World Series championship to which he had grown so accustomed during the first half of his career. New York won its American League Division Series opener at home against Detroit, but the Yanks didn't win again during the series and the immediate focus of the press and public centered on Rodriguez's ongoing postseason struggles while with the Yankees. "In New York, it doesn't matter if you have a contract [for the next season] or not -- you have to win," Jeter said. "But I don't think the focus is going to be on him more than others on the team." Jeter said he had been "out of the country, to get away from things." He said he hasn't seen a single World Series play to this point, so he had nothing to add when asked his thoughts about the Tigers and Cardinals. He was mostly asked about what went wrong with a Yankees team widely expected to get back to the World Series. When asked about clubhouse tension toward the end, Jeter responded, "What tension?" Then he was asked if he believes there is anything more he can do to show support for Rodriguez, referring to some degree of public perception that he had not been vocal enough in support of the superstar third baseman. "What would you like me to do?" Jeter asked. "You're there, everyone supports all your teammates all the time. I don't know if there's anything else I can do. I'm not that smart." Jeter also said that the media is not around the clubhouse long enough to be privy to conversations among players that are meant to be private, intimating that he has made efforts to reach out to Rodriguez. Regarding the immediate post-elimination buzz about Joe Torre's managerial status -- and then Torre's announcement that he was returning -- Jeter said, "I was surprised how quickly it happened. We had just gotten home. "He's the best. The best manager in baseball. Pretty much the only one I know, anyway." The last time Jeter was in the public spotlight, it also was before the Oct. 11 plane crash in Manhattan that claimed the life of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. "Unfortunately, there was the Cory Lidle situation," Jeter said. "It certainly took the focus off what happened in the playoffs." When asked what makes it so difficult for a team that regularly won it all to finally record that elusive 27th World Series championship, Jeter said: "A lot of series. A lot of games. "People say, 'We'll get 'em next year.' But that's a long way." -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 211.76.83.48