--- description: The Yankees captain said in a Facebook post that he was grateful he’d gotten to live his dream for the past 20 years, but that injuries were taking a toll title: Derek Jeter Will Retire After 2014 Season image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt251c4f6046b680ef/698682aaf983e7ad3704c6ee/148959062.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Baseball](/tag/baseball/) ## Baseball Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Derek Jeter Will Retire After 2014 Season  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 13, 2014 12:12 AM CUT  Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees looks on from the on-deck circle in the first inning against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum on July 19, 2012 in Oakland, California. Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees looks on from the on-deck circle in the first inning against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum on July 19, 2012 in Oakland, California.Thearon W. Henderson—Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 13, 2014 12:12 AM CUT New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter [announced on Facebook](http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/%5F/id/10444978/derek-jeter-says-2014-last-season-via-facebook-post "undefined") Wednesday that the 2014 MLB season will be his last. He wrote in a long post that he was grateful that he’d gotten to live his dream for the past 20 years. “From the time I was a kid, my dream was always very vivid and it never changed: I was going to be the shortstop for the NY Yankees. It started as an empty canvas more than 20 years ago, and now that I look at it, it’s almost complete,” the famed shortstop wrote. But, Jeter said, his injuries in the last year have taken a toll on his playing. He played only 17 major league games in the 2013 season after fracturing his left ankle. “The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward,” he wrote. At the end of the post, he hinted at future philanthropic and business plans. Here’s Derek Jeter’s Facebook message: _Video: Retirement: It’s not Forever_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/"},"headline":"Derek Jeter Will Retire After 2014 Season","datePublished":"2014-02-13T00:12:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:23:34.490Z","description":"The Yankees captain said in a Facebook post that he was grateful he’d gotten to live his dream for the past 20 years, but that injuries were taking a toll","url":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/","keywords":["Baseball","MLB","Derek Jeter","yankees","major league baseball"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt251c4f6046b680ef/698682aaf983e7ad3704c6ee/148959062.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt251c4f6046b680ef/698682aaf983e7ad3704c6ee/148959062.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees looks on from the on-deck circle in the first inning against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum on July 19, 2012 in Oakland, California.","caption":"Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees looks on from the on-deck circle in the first inning against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum on July 19, 2012 in Oakland, California.","creditText":"Thearon W. Henderson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/","name":"Derek Jeter Will Retire After 2014 Season"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Retirement: It's Not Forever","description":"Justin Bieber shocked his fans recently by announcing he intends to retire, but hope is not lost for the army of Bieber fans.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DZXMiz1V/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-12-19T20:33:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DZXMiz1V.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/","duration":"PT2M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/6938/derek-jeter-will-retire-after-2014-season/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```