Except for blue things and blue-ish things, even red is pretty blue…
And if you eliminate all of the shortstops who were or are among the best hitters in all of baseball, Derek Jeter is clearly one of the best-hitting shortstops in baseball history who have never been the best hitters in baseball.
Amazing Derek Jeter tonguebath in the New York Daily News – http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/08/18/2009-08-18_is_derek_jeter_baseballs_best_hitting.html
If you eliminate Alex Rodriguez because of steroids, ignore two hundred more home runs and two more MVP awards for Cal Ripken because a couple hundredths in slugging, Robin Yount because he was such a great hitter he played in the outfield, Ernie Banks because the writer forgot about him, Honus Wagner because he wasn’t on TV, I guess Jeter IS pretty obviously one of the best.
Honus Wagner led the league in slugging six times.
Alex Rodriguez was forced to third base because Jeter was clogging up short. There’s probably no other team that would have played him at third.
