He played the game the right way. Much like Cal Ripken before him, just a model of consistency, grace and dignity. He gets RESPECT because he gives respect A great team leader for many, many years.
Playing in the white-hot spotlight of NY, this is simply an amazing stat.
from ESPN.com
Also, the fact that given who he is, and how he looks, and where he plays, it's amazing that he hasn't made the back pages for much more than the "alleged" overnight gift bag to his gal pals fiasco.
Some other amazing stats, career milestones for The Captain:
- As a player, his teams are more over the .500 mark than any other player in history.
- He captained the New York Yankees, one of sports most marquee franchises, longer that anyone else in history.
- It wasn't too long ago, people were debating whether or not Jeter might catch The Hit King, Pete Rose for most hits all-time.
- A .309 batting average over 20 season of play
- 3,461 career hits
- 260 HR's playing in a park that is not user-friendly to RH power hitters
- 5 Silver Sluggers and 5 Gold Gloves
- Mr. Clutch, even though there is no such thing apparently, according to SABR
Now, this might be a little over the top, and I knew somebody would go there:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/derek-jeter-new-york-yankees-last-game-re2pect
The heavens are crying ahead of Derek Jeter's farewell to Yankee Stadium
The heavens are crying? Really? Anyway, a certain first allot Hall of Famer. Not just a compiler of stats of a hanger-on veteran. He's been a solid contributor his entire career.
from Baseball Reference:
71.7 career WAR/42.2 7yr-peak WAR/57.0 JAWSAverage HOF SS (out of 21) = 66.7 career WAR/42.8 7yr-peak WAR/54.7 JAWS
The JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score system) was developed by sabermetrician Jay Jaffe — first at Baseball Prospectus in 2004 — as a means to measure a player's Hall of Fame worthiness by comparing him to the players at his position who are already enshrined, using advanced metrics to account for the wide variations in offensive levels that have occurred throughout the game's history. The stated goal is to improve the Hall of Fame's standards, or at least to maintain them rather than erode them, by admitting players who are at least as good as the average Hall of Famer at the position, using a means via which longevity isn't the sole determinant of worthiness.A great day for baseball and a great day for the Yankees. On top of the hoopla of Mariano Rivera's career victory lap maybe some in the greater N.Y. metropolitan area are suffering from hoopla fatigue, but the fact that it seems to bother America's biggest bitch / whiner / bed-wetter / equal opportunity ball of hate Keith Olbermann makes it all the more appropriate to me.
(BTW - Just because you remember who Red Ruffing is and can spout some seemingly endless innocuous stats that your staff likely cherry picks for you, doesn't mean you know dick about The Game, sir). Your tedious rant only reflected the kind of person YOU ARE, which is to say the polar opposite in every way, shape or form that Derek Jeter is. You sir, will NEVER be the Captain of anything. You can only dream of being 1/1,000th as popular as Derek Jeter is. If ESPN had any shame whatsoever, they would make you go away, AGAIN!!! And take whoever that idiot is off-camera, that giggles like a school girl at the pablum that dribbles out of your mouth, with you. You're both cretinous losers in the game of life, that much you have made perfectly clear by way of your otherwise rambling, incoherent rant.
Rock on, Captain. RE2PECT. I got your back on this one.
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