I a soooooooooo sick of this Derek Jeter hype. Hes is a great player who deserves to be in the Hall of Fame but this hype is absurd. Hes far from an all time great. According to a Sports Illustrated poll of baseball players, Jeter was overrated in 2011. Hes done nothing since to erase that tag. Baseball is a game of statistics. In order to be considered an all time great you need to be great or very good in everything. Hell make the Hall of Fame because he was very good in lots of things, better than most. But just look at his statistics. 433rd in triples, 188th in home rune, 122nd in RBIs, 85th in walks but 14th in strikeouts. In addition to his stats and the opinion of his peers, Jeters defense has been the subject of criticism from a number of sabermetricians, including Rob Neyer and the publication Baseball Prospectus. The 2006 book The Fielding Bible by John Dewan contains an essay by Bill James in which he concludes that Jeter was probably the most ineffective defensive player in the major leagues, at any position over his entire career. A 2008 study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that, from 2002 through 2005, Jeter was the worst defensive shortstop in MLB. Two sites that rely on advanced defensive statistics, FanGraphs and FieldingBible, rated Jeter below middle-of-the-pack status in 2010, despite his receiving his fifth Gold Glove Award that season. The only good that will come of this nonsense this week is that it will soon be over.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:02:27 +0000
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