The most valuable asset in MLB walked away from the management side of the business on the same day the commissioner established as a deadline in labor negotiations. Whether the two items are connected by choice or by coincidence is unclear, but the effect is not: Derek Jeter became a player again Monday by suddenly quitting his role as CEO and part owner of the Miami Marlins.
This is a bigger story than the labor negotiations. Someday there will be an agreement and someday there will be baseball. But Jeter, a Hall of Famer and one the most popular players of the past quarter century, and thereby one of the most influential, does not want to be part of it.
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