WHERE DOES SHORTSTOP PLAY SERIES
Think only with the facts currently in your brain, and listen to it whisper things about Jeter's good fortune to play with the richest organization in baseball and to play in the biggest media market in the country and to date all those beautiful women - it's not germane to this discussions, but still … it's irksome right? - and you can fool yourself into thinking Jeter was in the right place at the right time, a Hall of Famer by virtue of his 19 years and 3,316 hits and five World Series rings but definitely not among the all-time greats. It is stupid, until you look at those pesky numbers and think about those gosh-darn facts. That's what some of you are thinking, to which I agreed last week. The rest of you are like, "Dummy," because that's stupid. And again, I know! Some of you are like, "Duh," because you knew that. Not only is Jeter a top-10 shortstop, he deserves a place in the top five. He's a Hall of Famer, so clearly he's one of the best ever, but the best of the best? Top 10 shortstops ever? Derek Jeter isn't one of those." Jeter announced his retirement after the 2014 season and someone was asking me on the radio, I think it was this dude, where Jeter rates among the all-time greats at shortstop, and my answer - off the top of my head, based on my feeling and not the facts - was pretty much this: Knock me over with a feather, because that's not what I thought as recently as a week ago. And yes, I said "us," because this was a shock to me when I looked at the numbers and thought about the facts and realized …ĭerek Jeter is one of the top-five shortstops of all time. But for the rest of us, this will be a shock. Or click to another link because you're not in the business of reading what you already know. Jeter's offensive statistics (.828 OPS) back up his status as one of the greatest shortstops ever.
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