Is It Time To Talk About The Decline Of Derek Jeter?
I was just looking at Derek Jeter’s career stats, to date, via the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia:
YEAR RCAA OWP RC/G ISO SEC BPA PA 1995 -2 .342 3.75 .125 .188 .412 51 1996 3 .511 5.79 .115 .222 .465 654 1997 10 .544 5.40 .115 .263 .468 748 1998 35 .653 7.11 .157 .296 .541 694 1999 77 .772 9.64 .203 .378 .609 739 2000 35 .644 7.98 .142 .293 .546 679 2001 32 .640 6.98 .169 .305 .546 686 2002 23 .610 6.13 .124 .287 .503 730 2003 24 .649 6.73 .127 .239 .499 542 2004 14 .565 5.72 .179 .286 .515 721 2005 28 .620 6.55 .141 .280 .505 752 2006 52 .715 8.20 .140 .305 .562 715 2007 19 .586 6.30 .130 .241 .485 714 2008 -5 .430 4.37 .103 .181 .413 256
Without question, Jeter is having a poor season with the bat – compared to both his own past production and what would be considered “average” production this season, in general.
As a whole, when you look at Jeter’s season-by-season stats, you have to say that 1999 and 2006 were “career” seasons – and that his 2005 season totals are what you could reasonably expect from him…in a given season.
So, let’s compare 2008, to date, against 2005:
YEAR RCAA OWP RC/G ISO SEC BPA PA 2005 28 .620 6.55 .141 .280 .505 752 2008 -5 .430 4.37 .103 .181 .413 256
Yikes. Note the drop in ISO and SEC.
For those not aware, ISO is isolated power – meaning slugging percentage minus batting average. And, SEC is secondary average – a stat that measures those offensive components that are not measured in batting average. The formula is (TB-H+BB+SB)/AB.
In a nutshell, this season, to date, Derek Jeter’s batting results have been (about) as effective as Dale Berra’s results were for the Yankees from 1985 to 1986. Is this just a bad season for Jeter, or, are we starting to see the decline of the Yankees Captain?
I don’t have the answer. But, I think it’s a valid question to have – based on what we’re seeing from Jeter this season.
if jorge could have last season at his age at his position, i’m not worried about jeter declining. The season is very young, and besides he missed a week’s worth of AB’s due to getting slammed in the hand. He says it didn’t bother him, but he’s lieing. He wouldn’t let his injury cost the yanks any more wins. It still might have.
Is it possible to see those numbers, except for those seasons up until this point, rather than for the whole season? Just curious.
i’d like to see that as well
~~~Is it possible to see those numbers, except for those seasons up until this point, rather than for the whole season?~~~
You could probably do it using Baseball Musings Day-by-Day database…running one season at a time, from Opening Day until June 9th, and then putting it all together, for his career, in a spreadsheet or something…if you really had the desire to see that…and the time to do it.
To me, Jeter’s performance has been the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to talk about it, and in a way he’s earned that, but he has been downright terrible. Hopefully he can turn it around, and I’m hopeful he will.
I can see a Derek Jeter-less team in 2011. His contract ends in 2010 and really, his days as a SS are numbered, his offense is declining.
I can see a Derek Jeter-less team in 2011. His contract ends in 2010 and really, his days as a SS are numbered, his offense is declining.
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Seriously? You think that the Steinbrenners will let their Captain and most popular player go play somewhere else? Because you can bet that Jeter won’t retire after the 2011 season, and unlike Theo, the Yankees have never taken a hard look at whether an older player should be brought back and at what cost in $$ and years. So I think its wishful thinking that Yankee fans won’t watch the full decline of Derek Jeter through to the end. The pitching and position prospects better come through because in three years or so, the declines of Posada, Jeter, A-Rod and Mo will be unmistakable.
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