i agree with the part that it's unprecedented and weird, but i never really saw him that way until he got to the yankees and that dumb ass fan base planted him firmly in jeter's shadow (not to mention the yankees making the better SS move to 3B). the ridiculously high expectations for the playoffs set off by their 90's run probably didn't help him, either. set an impossible standard. i'm not sure it plays out the same if the union had allowed him to go to boston.