On Jeter

i think this community [Baseball Think Factory] sounds stupid when we claim that jeter was/[is] a horrible defensive shortstop given that:

--flies in the face of how he has been perceived by his peers/other baseball people his entire career

--that in his career he was and is one of the smartest players in baseball

--he was in the center of the action of what could easily be argued was the best team in baseball over the past 15 years

--he's still playing an every day ss at age 38 and he's not embarrassing himself by any stretch. there are no willie mays moments here

i want to believe in the metrics. and i understand the origins of how jeter is assessed 

but i think jeter and the metrics clash and we are missing something

- Harveys Wallbangers