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Thursday, June 21, 2007

ENOUGH!

It was the second hit of the game for Jeter, whose latest hitting streak has reached 14, notes the New York Times.

Derek Jeter is a great hitter. He's leading all shortstops with an on base percentage of .417. He has a fine slugging percentage of .480, putting him nicely in the top tier of that statistic among shortstops. His OPS is third among those at his position.

Using the ridiculously complicated but inarguably accurate clutch-ness statistic, WPA, he's the 10th clutchiest hitter in baseball this year. (WPA measures how one's at bats impact the expected outcome of a game. Hitting a homer in a tie game, bottom of the ninth, is worth about zillion times what hitting a homer in a 5th inning of a 10-0 blowout. It's the long-sought Palmeiro Index.)

His team has scored the 3rd most runs in the majors, and he's a huge part of the reason why. He's been intentionally walked 3 times despite the fact that some pretty good hitters follow him in the Yankee lineup. (He's hit into quite a few double plays, though.) A lineup full of Derek Jeters would score 7 runs a game.

I DON'T GIVE A FLYING F. ABOUT HOW MANY GAMES IN A ROW IN WHICH HE HAS HIT. Why does baseball persist in talking about hitting streaks?!

ARGH!!!!!

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1 Comments:

  • A flying f? Perhaps Josh has cleaned up his language for when he reads these posts to Sara as bedtime reading.

    By Blogger dl004d, at 4:17 PM  

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