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Derek Jeter doesn't care if you call him delusional.
He says the Miami Marlins are not tanking and he expects the team to contend.
That's what the Marlins CEO and part owner says in a trailer for an upcoming interview on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which is set to air April 24.
“Tanking? What is — no — tanking?” Jeter asks Gumbel, who points out how the Marlins spent the offseason trading several of their best players — including reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton to Jeter's former team, the New York Yankees — for prospects.
"When you take the field you have an opportunity to win each and every day," Jeter said. "Each and every day. You never tell your team that they're expected to lose. Never."
Aside from Stanton, the Marlins, who are 5-15 and last in the NL East, also traded Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals, Dee Gordon to the Seattle Mariners and Christian Yelich to the Milwaukee Brewers.
The former Yankees All-Star shortstop said he expects "this team to compete, to compete, to compete."
But Gumbel pressed him and asked, "You expect them to contend?"
"I do," Jeter said. "If I don't believe in the players we have on the field, who's going to believe in them?"
Gumbel countered that, "as an executive, it looks like you're delusional if you believe otherwise."
Jeter: "Call me delusional."
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