Sep 09
Here are some of Derek Jeter’s milestone career hits, to date:
Hit# Date Opp Pitcher Inn Play Desc. 1 05/30/95 @SEA Tim Belcher T 5 Single to LF (GB thru SS-3B) 100 07/17/96 @BOS Joe Hudson T 7 Single to CF (LD to Short CF-RF) 250 05/23/97 BOS Heath. Slocumb B 9 Single to LF (GB thru SS-3B Hole) 500 07/20/98 DET Bryce Florie B 6 Single to CF (Line Drive) 750 08/18/99 KCR Dan Reichert B 1 Single to CF (LD to Deep SS-2B) 1000 09/25/00 DET Steve Sparks B 5 Single (Ground Ball) 1500 08/16/03 @BAL Pat Hentgen T 5 Single to CF (Ground Ball) 2000 05/26/06 KCR Scott Elarton B 4 Single to C (GB Front HP Adv E2) 2500 08/22/08 @BAL Radhames Liz T 1 Single to 2B (Pop Fly CF-RF) 2721 09/09/09 TBR Jeff Niemann B 7 Single to RF (GB RF line)
Single, single, single…you know, you always hear about guys like Rod Carew, Tony Gwynn and Ichiro Suzuki being magicians with the bat because of their ability to make contact and place hits “where they ain’t.” How come we never hear that about Jeter? He does it, no? Maybe it’s a bias against right-handed batters or something?
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September 10th, 2009 at 9:04 am
you know, you always hear about guys like Rod Carew, Tony Gwynn and Ichiro Suzuki being magicians with the bat because of their ability to make contact and place hits “where they ain’t.” How come we never hear that about Jeter? He does it, no? Maybe it’s a bias against right-handed batters or something?
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Good question. I guess I never thought about it that way but you’re right.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Here’s a thought. As well as being a RH batter Jeter has less of a dkscrepancy between his career Batting Average (BA) and Secondary Average (SecA):
Player BA SecA
Jeter .317 .289
Gwynn .338 .265
Ichiro .333 .223
Carew .328 .248
Keeler .341 .192
Jeter is too much of a “slugger” to belong to this group.
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