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New York Yankees shortstop and captain Derek Jeter formally announced that this will be his last season as a Major League player on Wednesday (19 February) in Tampa, Florida.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Jeter, New York Yankees shortstop and captain: Q. Why Now? Why is this the right time? "Well, just like I said, I took a lot of time thinking about this. You know last year - I've been very vocal about how disappointing last year was. How hard it was for me to play. how hard it was for me to come to the stadium each and every day. You know you start thinking about how long you really want to do this. Let me say one thing is that this is not a retirement little press conference. I still have a season to play. This is just letting you guys know that this is my last season. but I felt it was the right time. I've been doing this for a long time. This will be parts of 20 seasons that I've been doing this here in New York and parts of 23 if you count the minor leagues. So I just think I've been doing it for long enough and I look forward to doing some other things in my life, but I can't reiterate enough that we still have a season to play." (pool)