What do you do for a living? leads rising essays on family bands At the plate the Yankee captain walked, lined out and grounded out against ex-major leaguer Raul Valdez, a lefty whose fastball topped out at 85 mph. But the question isn’t so much if Jeter will hit again for the Yankees as whether he can play short at age 39, coming back from a broken ankle that he rebroke during spring training.