lakerevolution wrote:Wow, the career of Derek Jeter . . his stats and rankings by position are formidable. First or close to first in most of the relevant statistics in Yankees history. The dude was baad, and I say that never having really liked or given the Yanks appreciation as a whole
throughout the decades. "Jeeets" will join the Pantheon of Yankees who have won multiple titles, and he's certainly welcome company. That's all I got.
I was looking at MLB's.com and their top 25 greatest players ever. Jeter didn't make it. This was updated on April 11th, 2021. IMO ranking baseball players of all-time is really tough because of era's and you have Batters and Pitchers to consider.
Notable Yankees that make it:
2. Was Babe Ruth
8. Joe DiMaggio
9. Mickey Mantle
15. Lou Gehrig
16. Alex Rodriguez - he was a Yankee for 10 seasons.
-Rickey Henderson was ranked 11th but was only a Yankee for 5 seasons. To me Rickey was an A more than anything.
Jeter was a great player but the Yankees they have rated higher than him were better IMO. You can put an *by ARod because he cheated by taking roids.
Jeter never won a League MVP either, even Kris Bryant has won one. In Baseball Championships are important but don't weigh as much as they do in Football and especially Basketball. Stats, WAR, OBP, OPS, are critical in ranking baseball players + MVP's as well. Jeter reminds me of a Dwyane Wade type (Wade never won a League MVP either), maybe top 20ish to 25ish of all-time but not near the top 10. Great in most area's but in their era's there were a few players clearly better. Wade like Jeter was at the right place at the right time on teams that were stacked to get multiple championships. Jeter IMO was on the best team I have ever seen in Baseball history from 1996-2001 (1998). That team was loaded and would've won some WS without him. Wade had Shaq then LeBron.
Having said of that, I like Jeter but just putting my 2 cents in.
One last comment for my money, Willie Mays was the greatest baseball player of all-time:
.301 avg
156.1 WAR
.941 OPS
.384 OBP
1909 RBI's
660 HR's without cheating
3283 Hits
2 League MVP's
12 Time Gold Glove playing CF
He was a 24X All-Star
, that is insane!
also won a WS in 1954 = resume complete! He played when the league was segregated unlike Ruth, African Americans were allowed to play = the competition was better. End of story.