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Gee, I wonder if this story will get any posts?

lol

Excellent.

As I am in R&D I would like to see a link to their report on this... I would not say that this data is necesssarily accurate, but it would be interesting to see how they gathered and analyzed the data... to have done so they would have to have gathered and analyzed the same data for all of the starting shortstops in the league... even that is meaningless if the correct type of data was not analyzed... if anyone finds a link to this report they should post it...

This is what happens when the Government stops funding homes for the mentally ill. They end up in Boston having meetings..

yeah he stinks. How about lugo for jeter, straight up? Wait a minute, phone is ringing, it's Theo. Man Theo I haven't finished my post yet.

There is nothing shocking in this report. Any objective baseball fan has known for years that Jeter is over-rated defensively.

Jeter's great with the bat, but in the field, he is one of the worst. This also isn't new information.

This guy Jensen is a idot. Has he seen every shortstop play? He did this study based on stats not watching then play on the field. I say he is a Red Sucks fan who hates the Yankees.

This is complete crap. Jeter's the best short stop in the history of the game. Period.

YANKEES FOREVER!!!

This guy Jensen is a idot. Has he seen every shortstop play? He did this study based on stats not watching then play on the field. I say he is a Red Sucks fan who hates the Yankees.

YDT8523 | 02/17/08, 09:50 AM

What's the problem if he did the study based on stats? Isn't that a more accurate and objective way to do such a study?

Besides, I don't know if that's even true. It says. "Researchers looked at every ball put in play from 2002 through 2005 and recorded where the shots went."

It sounds like they did watch every shortstop play.

Jeter is one of the best shortstops in the game. That shows you how smart people in Boston are.

I love how all you have to do is ask a Yankee fan about Jeter's defense to determine whether he or she is delusional or objective.

Is Jeter great with a bat? Yes.
Is he a great leader? Of course.
Does he play hard on every play? Yes.
Is he great defensively? No.

The headline is bullsh*t, because the story really says he's the worst (defensive) SS. He is a very good hitter that is probably no better fielder then half the SS in the league. The Gold Gloves are explained equally by the fact that 1) he hits well 2) he plays in NY and 3) he pulls the occasional great play out of his a.s.s., just like virtually every ML SS does on occasion.

The posts on this will separate the morons from the honest objective fans.

While this has been said for years, everytime I watch the guy play there haven't been many times where I say "Damn he should have got that!". No more that any other SS anyway.

If Jeter played on another MLB team, New York fans would agree with this story.

You know their data is flawed, they list Trot Nixon as one of the best right fielders during the same period! And Clint Barmes is listed as the best SS during the period, so the sample size is definitely off since Barmes played a total of 113 games from 2002-2005, and made more errors in 2005 than Jeter did, in half as many games! I'm not saying Jeter is the best defensive SS, because obviously he isn't, but studies like this are always more subjective than they appear. A biased statistician can make numbers say anything they want.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hEV08EENXqsT3JA3u_8wV9xZnhxAD8URHEMG2