Each January and early February, Jeter said, he goes to the Yankees’ facility in Tampa, Fla., where he typically takes 30 light swings for his first four days of workouts. That is 120 swings, multiplied by 22 Januarys and Februarys (he was drafted in June 1992), for a total of 2,640 swings. The next four days in January, he increases to roughly 50 swings a day, so that is another 4,400. Then, for about two and a half weeks through early February, he takes about 65 swings a day, or roughly 24,310.

Then he cools down to 45 swings for the last two days, adding another 1,980. That puts him at 33,330 swings over 22 years before the start of spring training.

Jeter added that he never sneaked off to the Tampa complex, a few miles from his home, to hit; no midnight trips to the cage to fix a kink in his swing.

“When you leave the stadium, you’ve got to get away, because it’s a game of failure,” he said. “I have to have other things to think about other than baseball. I don’t understand how guys go back and watch their game again and then they watch other games. I don’t understand that. For me, I have to have an outlet.”