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Originally Posted by ThePretender
He was a good overall SS but he was not by any stretch a good fielder. Not even relative to other fielders because he was
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Apparently you messed up in editing what you were writing or something, but you ended up leaving your reasoning out.
I agree with Number4 that a weak defensive SS, which Jeter was, still is a better defender than most players on the field.
Anyone who's good enough to stay at SS and not be so obviously bad (even to the very unreliable eyeball test) he's replaced before the season is out is a talented fielder. Do you think if a team moved the LFer to SS he could do better? The 1Bman? Most 3Bmen (A-Rod being an obvious exception)?
Of course, when the Yankees got A-Rod, A-Rod should have been the SS and Jeter should have been moved to 3B.
I'm not saying Jeter was anything but a bad defensive SS, but a bad defensive SS is still a talented defensive player.