Talks with Jeter and Rivera to start in a day or two

Via Jon Heyman, the Yankees will start talking to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera (or their agents, anyway) about new contracts in the next day or two. The five-day window for teams to negotiate exclusively with their free agents expires at midnight Saturday, but that doesn’t really matter for these guys. The Yanks are going to pay both players far more than any other team will be willing to offer, so they have little to lose by taking their time and seeing how things play out.