Posts Tagged ‘ Derek Jeter ’
Jeter is Great, But Yankee Hit Record is Meaningless (The Big Lead) Actually Coach, Michael Jordan Never Was Cut From His High-School Basketball Team (The Big Lead) Onion Bag: U.S. Beats T&T, Very Close to Qualifying (The Big Lead) A Michigan-Notre Dame Preview, Sort Of (The Big Lead)[ READ MORE ]
Jesse Spector of the New York Daily News asks, “Is Derek Jeter baseball’s best hitting shortstop of all time.” While answering his question, he shows why adjusted OPS+ (and adjusted ERA+) is important. Spector says Jeter is merely “one of the best” of all time, because he has “no clear numerical edge” on Honus Wagner. [ READ MORE ]
Faced with a potential crippling from the economic crisis. Baseball seems to have stumbled upon a new marketing strategy. Having teams resemble their fan bases. The Red Sox spearheaded the movement last season. To more closely model their New England demographic, Boston traded a black Dominican malcontent for a lily-white leftfielder who would not dare [ READ MORE ]
Jeter Should No Longer Be a Shortstop. Here is my latest post for The Big Lead. As Jeter’s offense declines, he becomes less valuable at short. Should the Yankees move him[ READ MORE ]
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