Once upon a time, the only fielding statistic listed on the back of baseball cards was fielding percentage, a simple calculation of the number of assists and putouts a player records divided by total chances.
it has long been known by anyone who watches baseball, that jeter has no range. he passes on a lot of tries, probably to keep his errors down. just look at any other real shorstop in the league. Jeter has always been a "vanity" player at shortstop. a showhorse, not a workhorse. hate to rain on your one-man parade, thunderstorm.
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