Barry Larkin had also fallen through the cracks in several conversations regarding elite shortstops.
Jeter dedicated himself to improving his mobility, and he was rated one of baseball's better shortstops in 2009.
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Also, it is imperative that we begin to predict where he will rank amongst the all time great shortstops.
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Hard to envision the Yankees going to five years as the norm is one or two years for 36-year old shortstops.
The Rockies are pinning their hopes on a pair of shortstops.
According to Fangraphs.com, Jeter's Ultimate Zone Rating, a combination of his range and his propensity to make errors, was -16.5, worst in the majors among the 21 full-time shortstops.
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When Ripken recalls winning his first such award in 1991, his memory comes in the context of feeling snubbed in an earlier season when he set an assists record for shortstops.
But even if and when Jeter returns to that level, it will merely represent a return to what he has been the past few seasons: one of the most limited shortstops in baseball.
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For instance, besides Derek Jeter, there are only three men who have played a majority of their careers as shortstops to have accumulated more than 3, 000 hits: Honus Wagner (3, 420), Cal Ripken, Jr. (3, 184) and Robin Yount (3, 142).
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Besides a rookie campaign that began in 1986 where Ozzie Smith and Cal Ripken, Jr. were the obvious defensive and offensive gold standards for major league shortstops, ball players such as Tony Fernandez of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League was garnering accolades and praise as a premiere defensive shortstop as well.
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