Jeter received a higher percentage of HOF votes than any other position player in the history of baseball (Mariano was a Pitcher).
More than Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, etc. And that's only the Yankees. When you throw in names like Aaron, Mays, Musial, Wagner, Cobb, Foxx, Williams, Bench and Griffey then you can get a pretty good feeling for how overrated he was/is.
Great shortstop, but not the caliber of any of those players mentioned above. Yet he got more HOF votes than any of them... and Yankee Fans bitch about it. Even Jeter himself is focusing on the positive. This is a non-issue, and should not even be a debate.
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