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Derek Jeter: I'll be ready and I'm not fat

Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees

Photo credit: Jim McIsaac

Derek Jeter wants you to know his broken left ankle will be ready to go for the start of the season.

And he's not fat.

The Yankee captain appeared on the Michael Kay show on ESPN radio to address his health in the wake of a season-ending injury and in the aftermath of a recent New York Post cover purporting to show an overweight Jeter with the headline “Derek Eater.”

“People were...

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