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Date Posted: 18:00:20 10/17/01 Wed
Author: Danny
Subject: Re: Jeter: "We're not going home until somebody beats us"
In reply to: weas 's message, "Re: Jeter: "We're not going home until somebody beats us"" on 11:45:01 10/17/01 Wed

Just to answer a few of your rhetorical questions. Jeter hit 2nd. Behind Soriano, who wouldn't know a walk if it walked up and asked him to dance, and Knobby, who was having his worst year ever. Less chances with men in scoring position = less rbi chances. Tejada hit in different spots, but I think mostly 4th 5th and 6th after Giambi who hit 340 and walked 130 times, and Dye 346 obp. Jeter hit after Soriano and his 304 obp, and knobby with a 339 obp. I hate to always throw out the "Jeter hits 2nd" line every time this comes up, but its vital when you understand that much of the yankee's success hinges on 9 guys every day who understand their roles. When you hit 2nd in that lineup, your role is to get on base and/or advance runners.
The one # you brought up that stood out to me was the DP's. I find that amazing. I wonder what the disparity is. That Tejada has 25 more than Jeter doesn't add up. There was also a low # for Jeter last year in DP's. I remember thinking then, maybe its that the Yankees have so many strikeout/flyball pitchers, where the A's have more groundball inducers. I don't have the attention span or resources to look it all up what the A's and Yankee's % of opponents on base are. Which isn't to make excuses, but it would seem to me that there has to be an explanation.
Oh, and the ultimate trump card. Tejada got to face ranger pitching 19 times this year, lol, jeter only 7. That alone should make up for the home run difference.
I think your numbers bear out that they are pretty close in everything except for homers and rbi to tejada and avg and steals to Jeter. I will though point out something I said in my previous post. About how you can throw away OPS (I HATE OPS), avg, homers, rbi, etc, that the game is about winning, and no one does that as well as Jeter. No one does what it takes to win more than Jeter. I guess that would be filed under "intangibles" category.

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