Yankees' Initial Meetings With Derek Jeter, Cliff Lee Went Well

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Derek Jeter's grandmother has been joking that he doesn't have a job.

"Really it doesn't feel like there's anything different,'' the New York Yankees captain said Thursday about becoming a free agent for the first time. "I understand there's negotiations that are going to come and those sorts of things, but for me personally I don't feel any different.''

Jeter and his agent, Casey Close, met with general manager Brian Cashman, managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner and team president Randy Levine on Monday in Tampa, Fla. Jeter said the meeting "set the framework'' for contract negotiations and went well.

"It really wasn't that big of a deal,'' he said. "It wasn't like meeting people for the first time. It really wasn't that complicated.''

Cashman, Jeter and fellow free agent Mariano Rivera were all together in New York on Thursday night, but not for negotiations. Before attending former manager Joe Torre's Safe At Home Foundation benefit, they couldn't avoid contract talk.

 

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