Stumbled across this in the notes of a larger story and it wow'd me (emphasis mine). Derek Jeter went 1-for-4 and has 2,504 hits. That's 14 behind Babe Ruth for second on the all-time Yankee list. Lou Gehrig is first with 2,721.
Jeter has 1,255 hits at the Stadium. That's 14 short of Gehrig's all-time record with 14 games left.
He has over 2500 hits and he's 34. I knew he had a lot of hits but that number creeped up on me and startled me. He's not getting 200 hits a year for the the next few years, but could he average 150 and surge past 3000 in a hurry. If he plays another 6 years at 150 hits a year, well, he'd be in some awfully fancy company!
In case you're curious, here's the leaderboard for career hits:
Rank / Player / Hits
1. Pete Rose 4256
2. Ty Cobb+ 4189
3. Hank Aaron+ 3771
4. Stan Musial+ 3630
5. Tris Speaker+ 3514
6. Carl Yastrzemski+ 3419
7. Cap Anson+ 3418
8. Honus Wagner+ 3415
9. Paul Molitor+ 3319
10. Eddie Collins+ 3315
11. Willie Mays+ 3283
12. Eddie Murray+ 3255
13. Nap Lajoie+ 3242
14. Cal Ripken+ 3184
15. George Brett+ 3154
16. Paul Waner+ 3152
17. Robin Yount+ 3142
18. Tony Gwynn+ 3141
19. Dave Winfield+ 3110
20. Craig Biggio 3060
21. Rickey Henderson 3055
+ - Indicates Hall of Famer
Thursday, August 28, 2008
A Jeter fact
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It took me a couple of years to come around, too, but the fact is: Jeter is a great baseball player, and, more appropos to this post, is a great hitter.
And that's not even looking at his productive outs stats (which a 'team oriented' guy like Jeter excels at), which are PDG as well...
C'mon Os, you know the "Jeter is overrated" stuff is about to start up again!
ha, I feel vindicated...
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