Spinning around the bowl

What's wrong with Derek Jeter? He's been in a season-long slump ever since his buddy A-Rod donned a Yankees uniform. Maybe the Boss went after the wrong Jeter. Babyface's average is sagging faster than Mariah's boobies, though he's come alive over the last three days with a series of multi-hit games that have dragged his average above the Mendoza line. Assuming a couple more nights like last, he'll probably end the month of May batting around .225 -- predictable numbers if your name (god forbid) is Neifi Perez, heresy for a career .313 hitter. Still, if Jeter hits at his career clip over the rest of the season, he'll pull that average back up to a more-than-respectable .285, mirroring Marvin Benard's 2001 huge May-September shift of +.066 average points. Aaron Gleeman crunches the numbers in his excellent analysis and explains why it's safe to assume that Jeter will take a defibrillator to his average in June. Mike Cameron's season is totally in the toilet, though.