No offense, Derek, but …

Derek Jeter is easily my favorite player in Major League Baseball.

I love his work ethic, his demeanor, his hustle. I’ve never seen him not run out a ground ball — and I mean hard.

But the idea the Yankees owe him tons of money in his declining years simply because he is Derek Jeter, because of what he has done for them in the past, is absurd. He was well compensated for all those years.

The sense now is that after early rebuffs, Jeter and his agent are getting more realistic about his current monetary value. I hope so.

In an era when hardly anybody plays for one team his entire career, it would be nice for Jeter to finish as a Yankee.