Rated the sixth-best prospect in baseball by Baseball America heading into the 1996 season , Jeter started on Opening Day , the first Yankee rookie to start as shortstop for the team since Tom Tresh in 1962 .
He returned on Opening Day of the 1996 season as the starting shortstop ( the first Yankee rookie since Tom Tresh in 1962 to do so ) and hit his first major-league home run on that day .