Wait? The Great Derek Jeter? He belongs in the pantheon. He's like Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle had a love child and then had him raised by Emily Post. How could this clutch, gritty, inner circle Hall of Famer ever be compared to such a "pedestrian" type player. Well...
According to Baseball Reference:
Similarity Scores
Similar Batters:
- Craig Biggio (823)
- Paul Molitor (805) *
- Roberto Alomar (789) *
- Robin Yount (786) * <---------
- Charlie Gehringer (756) *
- Johnny Damon (729)
- Ivan Rodriguez (723)
- Joe Morgan (723) *
- Ted Simmons (718)
- Frankie Frisch (716) *
The truth hurts.
I'll have to get him a lovely gift basket before September.
3 comments:
Note that Biggio is #1. Yount deserved it, Jeter will get in on the first ballot (and deserve it) and yet Biggio sits and waits.
Oh, sure he belongs, my point was he is a lot closer to Robin Yount than he is to being Mickey Mantle or Joe DiMaggio.
And don't think I didn't notice that Biggio thing right away, but I covered Biggio recently.
Yea, sorry. I didn't intend to come off as being critical. It's just that the Biggio snub is so dumb, I jumped right on that number as soon as I saw it.
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