New York Yankees

New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole on Tuesday evaded a question about whether he has ever used the substance Spider Tack to help improve the spin rate on his pitches.

Gerrit Cole on if he ever used Spider Tack while pitching:

"I don't quite know how to answer that, to be honest...If MLB wants to legislate some more stuff, that's a conversation that we can have" pic.twitter.com/2fR1AUeOQX

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 8, 2021

"There are customs and practices that have been passed down from older players to younger players, from the last generation of players to this generation of players," he said. "I think there are some things that are certainly out of bounds in that regard, and I've stood pretty firm in terms of that, in terms of the communication between our peers and whatnot."

Minnesota Twins third baseman Josh Donaldson called out Cole on Friday, suggesting the Yankees pitcher was potentially using a foreign substance to improve his performance.

"Is it coincidence that Gerrit Cole's spin rate numbers went down [Thursday] after four minor leaguers got suspended for 10 games?" Donaldson asked reporters. "Is that possible? I don't know. Maybe. At the same time, with this situation, they've let guys do it."

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For those wondering how many players are using sticky stuff: If the guy who got paid $324 million is, you can be damn sure a majority of the rest of pitchers are, too. https://t.co/GVLYRF4xWJ

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 8, 2021

Major League Baseball has begun to crack down on the use of outside substances.

Trevor Bauer has also suggested in the past that he believes the only way pitchers can drastically improve their spin rates is through the use of foreign substances and that Cole might have been one of those players after he joined the Houston Astros.

He even trolled Cole in March 2020 while talking on the subject:

You know [Astros pitching coach] Brent Strom and those guys over there have a lot of different tips when it comes to spin. When he was with the Cardinals and everyone talked about going east and west, then he finally got over to Houston and got control of the reins a little bit and started talking about going north and south. People act like it's a new thing, but it's not a new thing.

What was the troll? Well, Cole had recently made nearly identical comments while defending why his spin rate had increased so much in Houston.

"I don't know who is creating [sticky stuff] or who is creating those rumors," he added at the time. "I feel like there are a lot of different ways to increase spin rate. I have done it for two consecutive years chasing some of the principles I learned over there on how you spin the ball."

He wasn't as willing to deny the use of outside substances Tuesday, however.

After two months, only one of Major League Baseball's six divisions features four teams above the .500 mark.

It's the American League East, and it's wild.

With 16 wins in their last 17 games, the reigning American League champion Tampa Bay Rays are back atop the division. Breathing down their necks are the Boston Red Sox, who are clearly determined to make up for their last-place finish in 2020.

Yet the big surprise in the AL East is the relative mediocrity of the New York Yankees. They came into the year as a presumed World Series contender and are still in that conversation, but they've been sidetracked by injuries and a wave of losses punctuated by a three-game sweep by the lowly Detroit Tigers over Memorial Day weekend.

Though the Yankees still have four months to turn their fortunes around, the seriousness of their problems and the difficulty of the road ahead don't paint a rosy picture.

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AL East Standings

1. Tampa Bay Rays, 35-20
2. Boston Red Sox, 32-21 (2.0 GB)
   
3. New York Yankees, 29-25 (5.5 GB)
   
4. Toronto Blue Jays, 27-25 (6.5 GB)
   
5. Baltimore Orioles, 17-37 (17.5 GB)
   

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The Yankees Are Banged Up and Lack Bang on Offense

On Opening Day, FanGraphs pegged the Yankees' chances of winning the AL East at a sturdy 71.0 percent. Even as recently as May 12, they were still as high as 67.8 percent.

Now they're at 28.0 percent.

That reflects the size of the bite that the injury bug has taken out of the Yankees. They just welcomed slugger Giancarlo Stanton back from a left quad strain Friday, and now reigning MLB home run leader Luke Voit (right oblique strain), starting pitcher Corey Kluber (right shoulder strain) and center fielder Aaron Hicks (left wrist surgery) are due to miss extended time.

The Yankees staff might be able to weather the loss of Kluber. Mainly courtesy of a Cy Young Award-caliber season by $324 million ace Gerrit Cole, the club ranks first in the AL with a 3.22 ERA. And in the coming weeks, starter Luis Severino (see here) and ace reliever Zack Britton (here) are due back from their Tommy John and elbow surgeries.

However, the Yankees are shockingly deficient in other aspects of the game. Neil Paine of FiveThirtyEight wrote all about the club's issues with defense, baserunning and situational hitting, yet nothing looms as large as its baffling shortage of offensive firepower.

To wit, the Yankees are only in the middle of the pack with 62 home runs and third from the bottom with a .371 slugging percentage. You'd never know they still have many of the same members of a unit that slugged .490 with 306 home runs just two years ago.

The injuries obviously haven't helped. Nor is it helping that DJ LeMahieu and Clint Frazier are having down years after lighting things up in 2020. Then there's the curious case of Gleyber Torres, who's gone from 62 homers in his first two seasons to just five over his last two.

Yet there are also foundational issues.

For instance, the Yankees' ground-ball percentage is up 4.2 points from 2019. They're also striking out 24.9 percent of the time, compared to 23.0 percent in 2019 and 21.7 percent just last year.

The Yankees are part of a leaguewide issue in the latter regard, yet what's unique about their strikeout problem is how it derives from misses on hittable pitches. Whereas their rate of contact outside the strike zone is only down from 61.4 to 60.1 percent since 2019, their contact percentage inside the zone has fallen from 85.0 to 82.0 percent.

Even more so than manager Aaron Boone, such things ought to have Yankees hitting coach Marcus Thames on the hot seat. But even if he were to be relieved of duty, the Yankees would still have holes at first base and center field by way of Voit's and Hicks' injuries. General manager Brian Cashman may need to fill those on the trade market.

Either way, the Yankees are running out of time to be patient.

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The Rays Are Just Really Good

You only have to go back to May 12 to find a time when the Rays were a mere .500 team (19-19, to be exact) that was looking up at three clubs in the AL East.

But in the weeks since then, they've looked a lot more like the team that won an AL-high 40 games and pushed the Los Angeles Dodgers to six games in the 2020 World Series.

It's perhaps easiest to notice the Rays' excellence when they're in the field. They lead the American League in defensive runs saved and all of MLB in outs above average. And while the guys with the gloves deserve the lion's share of the credit for that, manager Kevin Cash and the club's analytics department deserve some for opponents' .198 average on ground balls against shifted or strategic infield alignments.

Though Tyler Glasnow has certainly carried the rotation with a 2.57 ERA and 98 strikeouts over 70 innings, it's also to Cash's credit that the pitching staff has withstood the offseason departures of Blake Snell and Charlie Morton as well as it has.

Even after he got roasted for his quick hook of Snell in Game 6 of the Fall Classic, Cash has stuck to his guns and limited his starters to only 4.8 innings per outing. Yet he's had a good feel for when to extend them, as the 178 instances in which they've faced a hitter for a third time in a game have yielded an AL-low .544 OPS.

On days when his starters don't go deep, Cash is liable to make up the difference by having the next guys up go more than one inning at a time. The Rays lead MLB with 62 relief appearances that resulted in more than three outs, and 51 of those also yielded one or zero earned runs.

And don't sleep on the Rays offense.

Sure, it has the second-highest strikeout rate in MLB behind only the Tigers. But it's nonetheless scoring five runs per game, and it's been one of the hottest in baseball since May 13.

That's not because the strikeouts have dissipated. It's more so because Rays hitters have been racking up walks and home runs, and many of the latter spring from a specific quality.

Since May 13, only the Red Sox and Minnesota Twins have done a better job than the Rays of pulling the ball in the sweet spot. So far this season, batted balls that match that description have a 1.396 slugging percentage.

If all this isn't a strong enough indication that the Rays are in the race to stay, consider what's become of their chances of winning the division. Since May 12, they've skyrocketed from 3.5 to 36.1 percent.

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The Red Sox Are Holding Course, And the Blue Jays Are Lingering

As the Yankees have fallen and the Rays have risen, it's perhaps been easy to lose sight of the Red Sox. But rest assured, they're still there.

Though it's been a while since the Red Sox's nine-game winning streak in April, they've continued to stay well above water with a 23-18 record over their last 41 games. They've subsisted on superb offense from J.D. Martinez, Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers as well as a Matt Barnes-led bullpen that's better than it gets credit for.

With ace left-hander Chris Sale due back from Tommy John surgery sometime this summer, the Red Sox might not need to seek help on the trade market for a rotation that is paper-thin. As it is, Boston is right there with New York and Tampa Bay with a 23.2 percent chance to win the AL East.

Lest anyone think we're forgetting about them, the Toronto Blue Jays may yet crash the party.

They've been up and down, and they're about to be tested as they leave behind their hitter-friendly digs at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida, for more of a controlled environment at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York. The move could squeeze a home run flow that's thus far helped pour out an AL-high 77 long balls.

On the flip side, that venue switch could be a boon to a pitching staff that has the second-best road ERA (3.57) of any AL team. And at some point, $150 million signee George Springer (right quad strain) should get healthy and help Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Marcus Semien carry the lineup.

At 12.7 percent, the Blue Jays' chances of winning the AL East aren't much to look at. But that's also not bad for a club that almost certainly hasn't peaked yet—and which almost certainly will eventually.

Only Baltimore Orioles fans should give up on winning the AL East. For everyone else, it's the best four-horse race in town.

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Stats courtesy of Baseball Reference and FanGraphs and accurate through Monday's games.

Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it is entering the NFT market with the auctioning of a 1-of-1 NFT featuring New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig.

According to Ken Davidoff of the New York Post, MLB Executive Vice President of Business Development Kenny Gersh said: "When you think about NFTs, there is this concept of it being a fad. What we're looking to do, with the Candy [Digital] people, is to build a long-term sustainable business. What better person to symbolize durability and long-term success than Lou Gehrig?"

Specifically, the NFT will focus on Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech, which he gave at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, shortly after his ALS diagnosis.

Per Davidoff, MLB is planning to hold the auction for the Gehrig NFT around July 4, the 82nd anniversary of the Iron Horse's speech.

Davidoff noted that MLB is working with Candy Digital on the Gehrig NFT release. Candy Digital is a new digital collectible company that features executive chairman of Fanatics Michael Rubin as one of its heads.

Rubin said: "For me, I'm thinking long term: How do we take a league like Major League Baseball, with its tremendous legacy and history, so much content and [take it into the world of digital assets]? We could do NFTs for jerseys, for so much more. We haven't scratched the surface yet."

Given that the Gehrig NFT marks the start of MLB's entry into the market and that it is a 1-of-1, it figures to go for huge money at auction.

The winning bid on the will go entirely to charity with the Healey Center for ALS, the ALS Association and the Lou Gehrig Society all receiving some of it.

Even 80 years after his untimely death at the age of 37 in 1941, Gehrig is still considered one of the greatest players in baseball history.

During his 17-year MLB career, all of which was spent with the Yanks, Gehrig was a six-time World Series champion and two-time American League MVP. He also held the record of 2,130 consecutive games played before it was broken by Cal Ripken Jr.

Gehrig was a .340 hitter during his illustrious career with 493 home runs, 1,995 RBI, 1,888 runs scored and 2,721 hits.

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge called the performance of the team's offense "unacceptable" after the Bronx Bombers were swept by the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

Judge told reporters he expects things to improve but said, "You just can't keep coming to the plate trying to do the same thing expecting different results."

Aaron Judge remains confident that the Yankees' offense will turn it around:

"I've seen each guy at their best at some point in their career... it's gonna come, but what we've putting out there right now is not our best and it's unacceptable" pic.twitter.com/IZLmedjWqJ

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) May 30, 2021

With Sunday's 6-2 loss, New York has dropped five of its last six, scoring 10 runs during that span. Rather than a blip unfolding over recent days, the offensive woes have been a season-long problem.

According to FanGraphs, the Yankees are 24th in slugging percentage (.374), 16th in weighted on-base average (.307) and 15th in weighted runs created plus (97).

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Judge (.962 OPS) and Giancarlo Stanton (.850 OPS) are largely delivering at the plate. They have been the outliers, however, which is where the trouble arises for New York.

DJ LeMahieu is slugging .344, on pace to be his worst over a full season. Gary Sanchez and Mike Ford are batting .190 and .140, respectively. Rougned Odor hasn't benefited much from the short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium, with his five home runs failing to offset 26 strikeouts in 102 plate appearances. Clint Frazier is going backward and slugging .305 after an encouraging 2020 season.

Regressing to the mean isn't always a bad thing, and you'd expect proven contributors such as LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela to turn things around.

"It’s been a little inconsistent; I feel like it’s how we’ve been all year," LeMahieu told reporters Saturday. "We’ve put ourselves in good position, the pitchers have done a really good job. I think we’re all still waiting for that breakout series offensively, a breakout week, but I know we’re grinding and competing."

The Yankees are 24th in batting average on balls in play (.281), per FanGraphs, so a little more good luck could have a corollary effect on their performance. 

But Judge referenced how improvement doesn't happen in a vacuum.

New York Yankees starter Corey Kluber will miss an extended period of time due to a shoulder injury. 

Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced on Wednesday that Kluber won't throw for four weeks after being diagnosed with a subscapularis muscle strain.  

Boone added Kluber will seek a second opinion on the injury.

On May 19 against the Texas Rangers, Kluber became the first Yankees pitcher to throw a no-hitter since David Cone's perfect game in July 1999. The three-time All-Star left his next start against the Toronto Blue Jays after three innings with tightness in his right shoulder. 

Kluber has been a pleasant surprise for the Yankees this season after signing a one-year contract in January. The two-time American League Cy Young winner has a 3.04 ERA and 55 strikeouts over 53.1 innings through 10 starts. 

Injuries were a problem for Kluber over the past two seasons. He threw a combined 36.2 innings between 2019 and 2020 due to fractured right arm, abdominal tightness and a torn teres major muscle in his right shoulder. 

The Yankees don't have much pitching depth behind Gerrit Cole, so losing Kluber for any length of time is going to be a problem for manager Aaron Boone. Domingo German will be counted on to continue his strong play, but the offense can carry the load for the team whenever Cole isn't on the mound. 

New York Yankees announced that right-handed starting pitcher Corey Kluber left his start against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday with right shoulder tightness and will get an MRI Wednesday.

Kluber, who threw a no-hitter last Wednesday, threw 58 pitches over three innings, allowing two earned runs, two hits and three walks while striking out five. The earned runs were courtesy of a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. two-run homer.

Right-handed reliever Michael King came on in relief of Kluber. Lindsey Adler of The Athletic set that scene:

https://twitter.com/lindseyadler/status/1397344680979976201

The 35-year-old has gone 4-2 with 55 strikeouts and a 3.04 ERA in 53.1 innings for the Yankees.

Kluber's 2020 season lasted just one scoreless inning after he suffered a Grade 2 strain of the teres major muscle in the back of his pitching shoulder on July 26. He was placed on the 45-day injured list but did not return before the 60-game season ended.

The two-time American League Cy Young winner joined the Texas Rangers after nine years with Cleveland. He went 83-45 with a 2.85 ERA, 1.02 WHIP and 10.1 K/9 in a brilliant five-year stretch from 2014 to 2018.

In 2019, Kluber posted a 5.80 ERA over seven starts. He allowed the largest hard-hit rate (37.5 percent) and second-largest walk rate (8.9 percent) of his career, per FanGraphs.

His season ended on May 2 after he suffered a broken forearm following a line drive from the Miami Marlins' Brian Anderson. He attempted a comeback and made three rehab starts in August but was pulled from his third with left abdomen tightness, per Mandy Bell of MLB.com.

Kluber played catch in September, per Zack Meisel of The Athletic, but he did not return to Cleveland.

Cleveland picked up his $17.5 million option for 2020 but eventually traded him to the Rangers for right-handed pitcher Emmanuel Clase and outfielder Delino DeShields.

Kluber signed with the Yankees on a one-year deal after the season.

Anytime a New York Yankees team is the first to do something in franchise history since before World War II, it should immediately grab the attention of baseball fans everywhere.

Saturday in the Bronx proved to be one of those moments, as Gerrit Cole's seven shutout innings over the Chicago White Sox extended a scoreless streak by Yankees starters to 30 innings for the first time since 1932.

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Cole strikes out the side in the 7th!#YANKSonYES pic.twitter.com/QMnBu5RKn5

— YES Network (@YESNetwork) May 22, 2021

Beginning with Corey Kluber's no-hitter over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, New York starters have been nearly perfect.

Between Kluber, Cole, Domingo German and Jordan Montgomery, Yankees starters have allowed 14 hits and four walks with 32 strikeouts over the last 30 innings. That's helped New York outscore opponents 20-5 during its five-game win streak.

According to ESPN, that type of dominance on the mound hasn't happened for the Yankees (27-19) since May 11-16, 1932, when Johnny Allen, George Pipgras, Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez combined for four straight starts of seven shutout innings.

Cole—the Yanks' ace—had the most trouble among his teammates while keeping the scoreless streak alive Saturday.

Early control issues from the righty saw him pitching through traffic as New York's defense came to the rescue. Cole induced ground-ball double plays in three straight innings of work to keep the first-place White Sox (26-18) at bay during a 7-0 win.

Make that three-straight innings the Yankees turn two!#YANKSonYES pic.twitter.com/1gD8daCW04

— YES Network (@YESNetwork) May 22, 2021

It's the eighth shutout of the season for the Yankees, who lead the league in that category. Not since 1958 has New York thrown eight shutouts through its first 46 games.

Jameson Taillon is on the bump Sunday at 1:05 p.m. ET against the White Sox as the Yanks look to make it through a full turn of the rotation without giving up a run. He enters with a 5.73 ERA, 1.27 WHIP and plenty of momentum created by his teammates to keep the streak alive.

The New York Yankees are in need of a boost for an injured outfield, and they may have found their target in Delino DeShields Jr., according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. 

DeShields, the No. 8 overall pick by the Houston Astros in 2010, is currently playing in the Texas Rangers' organization, having started the year slashing .412/.500/.706 in 40 plate appearances for the team's Triple-A club. 

After a slow start, the Yankees have climbed up to third in the AL East at 25-19, but their depth in the outfield is dwindling. Aaron Hicks, Ryan LaMarre and Giancarlo Stanton are on the injured list, and as Rosenthal noted, left fielder Clint Frazier has been nursing a stiff neck. 

DeShields is in his second stint with the Rangers, having made his MLB debut with the organization in 2015. A regular contributor through five years with the organization—appearing in at least 118 games in three of those seasons—DeShields had a quieter campaign with Cleveland after he was traded to the team for the 2020 season.

He tested positive for COVID-19 in July and only appeared in 37 games for Cleveland, hitting .252 with seven RBI but no home runs. The club didn't offer him a new deal at the conclusion of the season. 

The 28-year-old signed a minor league deal with the Rangers in February and was invited to spring training, with the Rangers electing to pack the outfield with Joey Gallo, David Dahl and Adolis Garcia. 

He is the son of former MLB journeyman Delino DeShields, who played from 1990-2002 and appeared for five different teams within that span, and the brother of Chicago Sky guard Diamond DeShields. 

One night after Detroit Tigers starter Spencer Turnbull tossed the fifth no-hitter of the 2021 MLB season, New York Yankees star Corey Kluber joined the club with a 2-0 victory over the Texas Rangers in which he gave up no hits and just one walk while striking out nine. 

Coreybook Ending pic.twitter.com/2156vAfjWU

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 20, 2021

It's the first time there have been 2 no-hitters within a 2 day span since Fernando Valenzuela and Dave Stewart each threw a no-hitter on June 29, 1990. pic.twitter.com/5rjdQO8JkQ

— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) May 20, 2021

With Kluber's feat, MLB is now one away from tying the modern era record of seven individual no-hitters in a season. All well before June.

In fact, it's the first time since 1917 MLB has seen more than five no-hitters before June. After Turnbull's accomplishment in Seattle, baseball was on pace for 19 no-hitters in 2021. That number continues to rise. The all-time MLB record remains at eight no-hitters, which were completed during the 1884. Seven no-hitters were thrown during the 1990, 1991 and 2012 campaigns. 

Kluber needed just 100 pitches to finish off the Rangers at Globe Life Field on Wednesday and complete the 12th no-hitter in Yankees history.

New York Yankees starter Corey Kluber just finished the sixth no-hitter of the 2021 season, shutting down Texas. The first of his awesome career.

It’s the second no-hitter inside of 24 hours and brings the 2021 total to within one of the record seven for an entire season. Wow.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 20, 2021

Corey Kluber Breaking Ball vs Rangers:
31 pitches
12 swings
7 whiffs
12 called strikes
6 K pic.twitter.com/aDGOSV2brg

— Katie Sharp (@ktsharp) May 20, 2021

He joins John Means, Carlos Rodon, Joe Musgrove, Wade Miley and Turnbull among hurlers to go a full nine innings without giving up a hit.

Kluber, who attended high school in the Dallas suburb of Coppell, is the first Yankees starter to toss a no-hitter since David Cone threw a perfect game against the Montreal Expos in 1999. 

It's the second no-hitter thrown against the Rangers this year after the club was previously no-hit by Musgrove and the San Diego Padres on April 9 and the 311th no-hitter thrown in MLB history. 

Update:
MLB pitchers this season have 14 complete games in 9-inning games. 6 of the 14 (42.9%) have been no-hitters.

— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) May 20, 2021

On a day that 7 pitchers who have thrown a no-hitter in their career started...

Lucas Giolito
Joe Musgrove
Clayton Kershaw
Jake Arrieta
Max Scherzer
Wade Miley
John Means

Corey Kluber makes it 8

— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) May 20, 2021

Already a two-time American League Cy Young-winner, Kluber's no-hitter felt unlikely if only because the idea of the righty consistently throwing in later innings seemed far-fetched to begin with at this point in his career.

The Yankees signed the veteran on a one-year, $11 million deal in January to help fill out the rotation after two injury-plagued seasons that threatened to cut his time in the Majors short. In 2019, Kluber battled through a fractured arm and an abdomen ailment. He made just seven starts for Cleveland that year, but none after May 1. 

Kluber wouldn't step on a Major League mound again until July 26, 2020 for the same Texas Rangers club he no-hit on Wednesday. 

Despite trading Delino DeShields Jr. and closer Emmanuel Clase to Cleveland for Kluber and cash, the three-time All-Star lasted just one inning as a Ranger before a torn teres major muscle ended his season early for the second consecutive year. 

Aaron Boone on Corey Kluber's no-hitter: "Corey has come here and become entrenched in our culture, embraced in the clubhouse, beloved by everyone. I'm excited for him and his story, and what he's been through." #YankeesZoomRoom pic.twitter.com/1isggXCfcs

— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) May 20, 2021

Wednesday was a return to form for Kluber with a third-inning walk to Charlie Culberson serving as the only blemish on an otherwise perfect night. 

The 35-year-old had previously taken a no-hitter into the seventh inning with 18 strikeouts in 2015. With half the amount of Ks in nine innings against Texas, Kluber checked off another box on his ever-growing resume and moved MLB to the brink of tying one of its longest standing records. 

ESPN and Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter announced a documentary that will detail the Yankees legend's career, set for a 2022 release.

The multipart series will be titled The Captain and follow Jeter's journey from first-round pick to Yankees great. Director Randy Wilkins has signed on to helm the film.

"The documentary series will use Jeter’s journey as a vessel to tell a larger cultural story that explores race, family, community, rivalries and more. The heartbeat of the project is candid access to the man who helped restore shine to a team, a city, and a culture," the ESPN press release says.

Spike Lee, Mike Tollin, Mandalay Sports Media, Excel Media and Connor Schell will serve as executive producers for the project. The Players’ Tribune and Major League Baseball will also be involved in its development.

Jeter played for the Yankees from 1995 to 2014, winning five World Series and earning 14 All-Star appearances. He was renowned as the face of the Yankees franchise while also drawing massive amounts of attention off the field, particularly with his dating life.

It will be interesting to see how much Jeter is willing to open up for the documentary, given he has been fiercely private about his personal life.