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Originally Posted by lowpopper
so many parrots wow
where are all the highlights of jeter making errors in the big games?
what he booted a ball at camden with a 7 run lead?
he bounced one to first on a partly sunny nick johnson bobblehead day?
you know you got the juice when people find any excuse to hate
haha parrots!
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Ummm, I think I'm the only one that mentioned Jeter. I'm a Yankee fan and a huge Jeter fan.
Analytics don't like him defensively, even with all the Gold Gloves. Just like they don't really like Edmonds as much as his reputation says otherwise.
Nothing personal. I thought he was a great Shortstop while I was watching him play. I saw him make several plays I've never seen anyone else make. He passed the eye test with flying colors and I wouldn't have traded him for anybody during his prime with the Yanks.
Hope that clears things up...from someone else who also gets clearly irritated when others say Jeter is super over-rated, or that he was a horrible Shortstop, when he clearly wasn't. He didn't have amazing range for much of his career, but he was very workmanlike and reliable.
I've come to terms with the fact that he maybe didn't deserve all the Gold Gloves he won, but he was a solid Shortstop, whatever the analytics say about him.