Derek Jeter vs. the baseball researchers. - By Nate DiMeo - Slate Magazine

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Slate:  Derek Jeter vs. Objective Reality
Published 7/14/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Slate: Derek Jeter vs. Objective Reality Derek Jeter is quite good at playing baseball. As such, he’ll earn north of $30 million this year in salary and endorsements. Despite a poor offensive season by his standards, fans voted Jeter to his ninth All-Star team, where he will start at shortstop for the American League on Tuesday night. Add to that his four World Series rings and dalliances with actresses and beauty queens, and there is a lot to recommend the Yankees star. There’s just one small blot on his résumé: When it comes to playing defense, Jeter sucks. With input ...

Yanks' Jeter dissected
Published 7/14/2008 by Mark Serio (noreply@blogger.com) at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
... ) The bottom line? "There's just one small blot on his résumé: When it comes to playing defense, Jeter sucks." Got it. ...

Monday night linkaliciousness
Published 7/15/2008 by Adam J. Morris at Lone Star Ball: Front Page Posts
... Over at Slate, there is a somewhat meta article about how Derek Jeter's defense has become the defining debate amongst the stathead v. traditionalist crowd.  For Ranger fans, of course, substitute Michael Young for Jeter... ...

“Jeter gets far more girls than his fielding talents should allow.”
Published 7/15/2008 by Steve Hulkower at Bugs & Cranks
... Nate Dimeo and Slate.com have joined the slowly growing reality movement that is the “Derek Jeter Sucks At Fielding” bandwagon. ...

Recapping the Jeter Debate
Published 7/15/2008 by Ben K. at River Ave. Blues
... We all know that Derek Jeter’s defense isn’t the greatest part of the game. In case you want a full recap, Slate’s Nate DiMeo breaks down the years-old debate. One day soon, Derek may have to move off of short. I don’t envy the man who has to tell him that. ...

BASEBALL: Any Way You Count It
Published 7/17/2008 by Baseball Crank at Baseball Crank
... This Slate article does a pretty good job of capturing why anybody who takes statistical analysis of baseball even remotely seriously ends up sooner or later writing about Derek Jeter's poor defensive performance. (Note, of course, that most of those analysts don't dispute that Jeter is justly headed to Cooperstown - analysts may feel Jeter is overrated by the media and Yankee fans who think he walks on water because the Yankees win the World Series every year, but, ...