JETER should NOT be 1st ballot

[Pure Steel]

'85 bro. (And it was off the immortal Joe Cowley)

97 wins and went home for the winter.

F*ck Ernie Whitt

And Doyle Alexander got the win......

 

[nynasty]

And Doyle Alexander got the win......

Couple of years before he was part of one of the worst trades in baseball history.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Rangs, Brah

Game Over

 

[huskers1217]

when can we talk Dale Murphy?

amirite @Chewbaccer

 

[huskers1217]

Couple of years before he was part of one of the best trades in baseball history.

fify

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

'85 bro. (And it was off the immortal Joe Cowley)

97 wins and went home for the winter.

F*ck Ernie Whitt

Lmao Cowley

Knew it was one of those shitbags, Cowley, Dotson, Hawkins

All the same guy

 

[Rock Strongo]

Jeter career ops+ 115
Sandberg 114
Sandberg haD 282 homers in many many less at bats than Jeter, including a 40 homer season. When he retired, he had more homers than any 2B in history.
Jeter had 260 total, only three seasons in the 20s, and none over 24.
Sandberg had a career .989 fielding percentage.
Jeter had five completely undeserved gold gloves- his actual stats show him to be a below average SS.
Sandberg was a THIRD ballot hall of famer.

slappy mcsingles

he had 3,465 hits
of those, 260 were HR
544 were doubles
66 were triples

that leaves 2,595 singles.

jeter had 870 xtra base hits out of his 3,465.

 

[Voltaire26]

Ernie Banks was such an amazing SS that he decided to play more games at 1st base.......

That's because he got old ... shortstop is a young mans position. For some reason, I've always hated the Cubs, but liked their players. Love Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams and Ferguson Jenkins.

 

[Voltaire26]

Couple of years before he was part of one of the worst trades in baseball history.

We traded for him because we had pennant fever ... Maybe John Smoltz would not have been so good with the Tigers. The Atlanta Braves were a good fit for him ... 20 years and a Hall of Fame Career. No Regrets!!

John Smoltz Stats | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[Sportsguy9695]

He can be first ballot but the talk of him being the first unanimous choice is ridiculous. Never the best player in the league. Rarely the best player on his own team.

Are you kidding me? He was hands down the best player on the Yankees when he was playing. He was consistent at the plate always good for a base hit. And I don’t think anyone could play the field better then him. Your just use to today’s Yankees who live and die with the long ball

 

[Indrid Cold]

That's because he got old ... shortstop is a young mans position. For some reason, I've always hated the Cubs, but liked their players. Love Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams and Ferguson Jenkins.

Ernie started having knee trouble well before he switched to 1b, he claimed the trouble started with an incident during his army service.
Ernie was pretty much done when I got old enough to be aware of baseball, but I really loved Billy Williams. Rick Monday was probably my favorite player once Billy moved on, then Bill Madlock. Didn't like Kingman because he looked mean, turned out he was genuinely a SOB...he could have owned the town as a local (Palatine) boy, but he had totally the wrong personality.

 

[williewilliejuan]

slappy mcsingles

he had 3,465 hits
of those, 260 were HR
544 were doubles
66 were triples

that leaves 2,595 singles.

jeter had 870 xtra base hits out of his 3,465.

Is there some sort of rule that power hitters are the only players worthy of HOF consideration that I am not aware of?

Someone should let Ichiro know. Maybe Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn, too.

 

[Pure Steel]

That's because he got old ... shortstop is a young mans position. For some reason, I've always hated the Cubs, but liked their players. Love Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams and Ferguson Jenkins.

That was my point..,...

 

[Pure Steel]

Lmao Cowley

Knew it was one of those shitbags, Cowley, Dotson, Hawkins

All the same guy

Cowley was shockingly 21-8 in his two years as a Yankee....Let up a ton of homers in his last year.....He became a model after retiring, had Hollywood good looks.....

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Cowley was shockingly 21-8 in his two years as a Yankee....Let up a ton of homers in his last year.....He became a model after retiring, had Hollywood good looks.....

"Fishing for a pennant"

Back page of the Daily News the day they acquired Steve Trout

Don't know why I'll always remember that

Remember the Hawkins no hitter in Detroit? Leyritz dropped a fly ball in left

Think he lost 11-0

 

[Guy Incognito]

He has just under 3,500 career hits (really the end of the argument there)
All-Time Post-Season Leader in Hits
Slashed .310/.377/.440 over a 20 year career
5 GG's and 4 SS's
Captained the Yankees to 5 WS titles
Won a WS MVP
Slashed .308/.374/.465 in 158 Post-Season games with 20 HR's
In the World Series - he slashed .321/.384/.449 in 38 games
14x All-Star and ROY

Dude is the embodiment of consistency and an absolute legend

GTFO here

This is an absurd argument which is absolutely cherry picked.

Not even the best singles hitter of all time.

Look, he belongs in the Hall, and that's all that matters.

But he's not the legend that Yankee knob slobbers want us to believe.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Not even the best singles hitter of all time.

Look, he belongs in the Hall, and that's all that matters.

But he's not the legend that Yankee knob slobbers want us to believe.

Yankee legend

We could care less if he's a baseball legend

 

[Wamu]

Does anyone have Jeter on their Mount Rushmore of Yankees? I don't. Mine would be Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio & Mantle.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Is there some sort of rule that power hitters are the only players worthy of HOF consideration that I am not aware of?

Someone should let Ichiro know. Maybe Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn, too.

no, but those guys led in stuff and were the best at their position for times.

boggs has an OPS 40 pts higher. he also led the league in 20 stats over his career. 20 times, he was the best at something, many times in the same year (BA, OBP, hits, etc). 7 straight years of at least a .325 avg, 200 hits an 100 runs.

Gwynn, same. no comment needed. come on now.

Ichiro has 4,367 hits in both leagues for his career so...see above. he also led the league in meaningful stats 10 times. he also kinda hit leadoff?

the guys above are in for MORE than just 3k hits or team awards. they were the best at their position, and led the league in several categories for prolonged periods of time.

btw, jetes led the league in hits twice, and runs once. so, his accolades are a few team awards and those 3 times he led in something. Was he ever the games best short stop?

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Does anyone have Jeter on their Mount Rushmore of Yankees? I don't. Mine would be Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio & Mantle.

No, Mariano before Jeter of anything