Hannah Jeter Announces Pregnancy with Derek on Players' Tribune

Hannah and Derek Jeter share their next chapter: — The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune)February 13, 2017

Derek Jeter is having a baby! That is, his wife, Hannah, is pregnant with the couple's first child. She made the announcement Monday, about three-quarters of the way through a 1,400-word essay for the Players' Tribune, her husband's post-MLB media venture. And she's having a girl, we are to infer. Mrs. Jeter might have buried the lede a little, but whatever, it's Captain Jeets! He's going to be a father, and his child is going to look like a cross between himself and a supermodel. And so again, Jeter, who will have his uniform No. 2 retired by the Yankees in May, wins at life.

The mom-to-be writes:

Now, pregnant with our first child, Derek and I are looking to the future.

He already has a name in mind — he's set on it. (We'll see.) He'll say when he calls me during the day:

"So, how are you and so-and-so doing?"

"That's not the name yet, sweetie."

Whatever her name is, I know she'll run circles around him.

Let's pick this apart a little: So-and-So Jeter. That's an awful name. The "she'll," combined with the pic of Father-to-be Jeets grimacing behind a bunch of pink balloons, makes it a fair assumption that the Jeters are having a girl. So-and-So Jeter would be an especially bad name for a girl. Might we suggest Clutch? Also: "She'll run circles around him"? Did Hannah just make a joke about her husband's range on defense?

Among the other highlights of the essay:

• Growing up in the Caribbean as a non-baseball fan, Hannah thought Derek was a pitcher at first
• Everybody thinks they know Derek Jeter, but googling him doesn't really count
• After visiting Yankee Stadium and seeing fans' adulation for Jeets for the first time, Hannah felt "almost as if New York and I were dating the same person"
• She "canceled jobs left and right" in order to follow Derek during the final games of his career
• They want to have more than one child

She finishes the essay with a semi-cryptic thought about her future kids: "If they want to play baseball, well, we're gonna have a little talk first." What does she mean by "play"? In the yard? Or, like, competitively? Is she looking 20 years into the future and worrying about kids with the last name Jeter being good enough to play professionally, so that their lives are upended by the fame that has twisted her husband's life into some kind Monkey's Paw-type existence?

Or does she not even like the sport? Wants the pace quickened and the extra innings eliminated? Is she the millennial that Commissioner Rob Manfred is trying to woo?

Is there going to be a second part to this Players' Tribune cliffhanger?

[Players' Tribune]