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Derek Jeter says Michael Jordan was a much better baseball player than people give him credit for, and says if he played longer he would have only gotten better because hitting .200 in Double-A after essentially coming straight from Little League is actually insanely hard to do “I’m going to tell you something... A lot of people laugh, ‘Oh, Michael was this, Michael was that.’ Michael Jordan played baseball in Little League, and then the next time he played, he’s playing Double-A baseball.” “When you play in the minor leagues, once you get to Double-A, that’s the biggest jump. You have rookie ball, Low-A, High-A, Double-A, Triple-A, then you get to the major leagues.” “Once you get to Double-A, the biggest jump is from A to Double-A. If you can play in Double-A baseball, you can play in the major leagues at some point. He went from Little League to Double-A and hit .200. And everyone’s like, ‘Oh, he hit .200.’ That’s not easy to do.” “A lot of people fail to realize that baseball is a game of failure. You hit .300, that’s a great achievement, but that’s 300 out of 1,000.” “My first year, I was a high school Player of the Year, and I went to rookie ball and hit .202. And I had a great two weeks. I was hot the last two weeks to get just over .200. It’s tough to do. People just think because you’re great at one sport, it should translate into another. It doesn’t happen like that.” “Michael was a lot better than people give him credit for. And if he played longer, I think he would’ve just continued to improve.”