Derek Jeter Net Worth

Raquel Davies | November 27, 2013

NET WORTH

$125 million

  • REAL NAME

    Derek Sanderson Jeter

  • DATE OF BIRTH

    June 26, 1974

  • OCCUPATION

    Professional Baseball Player

  • HEIGHT & WEIGHT

    6’3″ and 195 lbs

  • SIGN

    Cancer

  • REPRESENTATION

    Creative Artists Agency -- Christian Carino

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Derek Jeter has an estimated net worth of $125 million 

Derek Jeter is an American professional baseball player with an estimated net worth of $125 million. He currently plays shortstop for the New York Yankees. Jeter is 6’3″ and weighs 195 pounds. Derek Sanderson Jeter was born on June 26, 1974 in Pequannock Township, New Jersey. Born of mixed race parents, his father was a substance abuse counselor while his mother was an accountant. His father played shortstop for his college’s baseball team. The family moved to Michigan when Jeter and his sister were still young, although the children would spend their summers in New Jersey, with Jeter taking the chance to watch the New York Yankees with his grandparents.

After a standout high school career – in which Jeter was named the 1992 High School Player of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association, the 1992 Gatorade Player of the Year Award and the USA Today High School Player of the Year – he was offered a baseball scholarship by the University of Michigan. But Jeter’s future lay in professional baseball and he was drafted by his beloved Yankees with the sixth pick in the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft. Jeter signed an $800,000 contract and spent the next four seasons playing minor league baseball. After steadily improving throughout his minor league career, Jeter was considered the fourth-best prospect ahead of the 1995 season and the Yankees brought him up to make his debut on May 29, 1994. Although he was hitless in his first game, he racked up 2 hits in his second. He took over the full time spot as shortstop for the Yankees in 1996, hitting a home run on opening day and going on to hit .314 with 10 home runs in his first full season on his way to capturing the AL Rookie of the Year Award. He capped the year off with a .361 batting average in the postseason, leading the Yankees to their first World Series win since 1978. But it was just the beginning.

Jeter would go on to have among the most storied careers in Yankees history. He made his first All-Star Game in 1998 on his way to winning the AL MVP Award and another World Series for the Yanks.  New York would go on to win three World Series in a row (1998-2000) with Jeter taking center stage throughout – including 2000 World Series MVP. He would be named an All-Star 13 times, win 5 Gold Gloves and 5 Silver Slugger Awards among numerous titles. As well as his impressive statistics, his performances in big games gained Jeter an almost mythic status, and the nickname “Captain Clutch” and “Mr. November.” He signed a series of multi-year, multi-million contracts with the Yankees, including his last for one year and $12 million in November 2013. His status and an undisputed icon in New York has made him among the biggest celebrities in all of sport, with the requisite endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, Gatorade, Ford, Gillette, Skippy and many others rolling in. He is a notorious lothario, dating some of the biggest celebrities and models in the world, including Mariah Carey, Jessica Alba, Miss Universe Lara Dutta, Jordana Brewster, Minka Kelly and Jessica Biel. He remains unmarried.

Derek Jeter has an enough net worth to buy:

1. 6.9 Derek Jeter’s Trump Towers Penthouse ($17,950,000.00 each)

2. 454.545.4 1993 Score Derek Jeter Rookie Card ($275.00 each)

3. 125,628.1  Movado Limited Edition 800 Series Derek Jeter Chronograph Watch ($995.00 each)

Derek Jeter has enough net worth to give everyone in Mexico $1.05

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Written by Raquel Davies

Raquel is a staff writer for PlentyofCheddar.com. She received her Bachelor's of Arts in Public Relations from Barry University. Raquel enjoys reading Sci-Fi/ Fantasy novels and watching films of that same genre. Raquel is also enjoys the theater arts and fine dining. She was raised in Maryland but currently resides in Miami. Check her out on !

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