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@anticensorshipsociety1063

7 ай бұрын

Why don't you attempt to be original by not featuring a Yankees player in the thumbnail? Is that even possible for you? At least in any "worst" category. It's okay though, the HOF voters disagree. Calling his defense "subpar" is debatable but I can respect the opinion. Calling him the worst defensive player of all time? It's not merely absurd it's next-level/industrial strength hyperbole.

You missed perhaps the worst defensive player of all-time: Adam Dunn. Over a six-year span, he had -136 DRS and his career total is -162. His career dWAR was -28.4 despite fewer than 8,300 PAs.

@nobeardthepirate9172

7 ай бұрын

Love Adam Dunn.

@robotbro7187

7 ай бұрын

SS, CF, C, and 3rd are the only positions that really make a noticable diff with defense. I still rather have an elite hitter whos avg or slightly below average at defense than an elite defender that sux at hitting.

@marcballprogram

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I was hoping for an explanation of -5.2 dWar in one season. I just don't understand how that's even possible.

@the_roflcakes

7 ай бұрын

​@@robotbro7187yep. Look at Jason Heyward lol. Cubs spent a fortune on that dude and he still can't hit to this day 😂

@TKar27

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Adam Dunn, yet Jeter is number one. Played 150 games a year for all but 2 years and missed the playoffs once. Drs and UZR credit nothing g for durability or pressure packed environments.

I remember watching prince fielder hit an inside the park home run. That was magical.

@TheOneAndOnlyD-O-Double-G

7 ай бұрын

Were you at the game our watching on TV?

@patrickkirkham

7 ай бұрын

I remember seeing that on the highlights

@chad7982

7 ай бұрын

Damn 😅😅

Its crazy how people still value errors when Castellanos didn't register a single one in 148 games

@sniperguyAZ

7 ай бұрын

they score a lot less errors nowadays as well so you have a point

@holographer

7 ай бұрын

You have to be able to get to the ball in order to commit an error!

@tonyspino6768

7 ай бұрын

Nothing was an error this year lol

@user-kr9lw2vh9g

7 ай бұрын

He also had a few defensive plays in last years postseason run that legitimately saved games

@dankburrito8345

7 ай бұрын

​@@user-kr9lw2vh9gYeah, those turtle slides were clutch af

The only thing keeping Raul Ibanez out of this video is the fact he wasn't a full time player until he was 29. His adventures in LF were like snuff films that generated dozens of all-time great gifs. The lawn dart is still my favorite.

@justinlast2lastharder749

5 ай бұрын

Seattle was Smart and had Defensive Center Fielders and Ichiro to compensate. They'd shift Center over to cover half of Left Field for him with Defensive Wizards like Adrian Beltre and Jack Wilson/Yuniesky Betancourt expanding the Infield into the short portion of Left Field. Unfortunately, that's where Seattle's Intelligence Ended as they also thought Richie Sexton and Russel Branyon were Power Hitters to build around during that period.

Back in the 80's or 90's when the Dodgers had Pedro Guerro at 3rd, Mariano Duncan at short, Steve Sax at 2nd and Mike Marshall at first, was one of the worst fielding infields of all time. So there is a story where Tommy Lasorda is having a team meeting and he says "Pedro, bottom of the 9th, tying run on 3rd, two outs what are you thinking ." Guerrro responds saying "I am thinking 2 things coach, please to not hit the ball to me." Lasorda ask what is the other thing he is thinking "Dear God, don't let them hit the ball to Sax."

Why at the end of every sentence does it sound like youre going up a note?

@Ty_Guy2K

7 ай бұрын

I was losing my mind after 1 minute of listening to him ngl

@ludwigiapilosa508

2 ай бұрын

Same. He needs to cut down on that.

Castellanos has drastically improved his defense and has been a very solid right fielder in Philly

@tjboylan20

7 ай бұрын

Definitely it’s because of the work he put in and the Phillies moving him to where he always comes in and to his glove side where he is his best

@robotbro7187

7 ай бұрын

if you look at his advanced metrics, it shows him as an awful an RF still lol. Thats why is overall war is so bad. I disagree with that though, hes a lot more valuable than his war says, defensive metrics are too heavily counted towards or against a players value. I'd rather have a player like him than someone who can't hit a lick but plays amazing RF

@richardm123

7 ай бұрын

@@robotbro7187 I suspect that's why Johan Rojas has been so important for the Phillies in CF. His speed and glove allow him to effectively shrink Castellano's field responsibility taking away a lot of dropped balls

@robotbro7187

7 ай бұрын

@@richardm123 yeah true, rojas should be a solid hitter too, at least when it comes to avg, so the phillies will be able to keep him a full time starter, which will make him even more valuable to the phillies

@draneym2003

7 ай бұрын

​@@tjboylan20Putting in the work is great. But it doesn't erase the past either. I mean, look at these routes.

I still think Jeter would have been league average or better at 3rd base. Range doesn't matter as much there and that was his issue. He handled the plays he could get to at a very high rate and had an excellent arm. All these years later, I still can't believe the Yankees moved ARod off SS for Jeter. It's not like tons of people hadn't already been pointing this out.

@a_coleman11

7 ай бұрын

Because Jeter had already proved himself at that point at SS. Plus the fanbase would have revolted if they moved DJ

@hardybryan

7 ай бұрын

@a_coleman11 Many fans and commentators were already well aware that Jeter was a shit SS and called it out at the time. It wasn't the fans who would have been upset, it was Jeter.

@roycolon1362

7 ай бұрын

I felt that Jeter should have been made 2b, ARod kept at short, and Cano should have been brought up as a 3b, optimal infield for that group

@roycolon1362

7 ай бұрын

Then if u think of it, part of the reason they signed tex was to have a good fielder for jeter at short, they don’t sigh tex, they have the pick for Trout, they sign manny ramirez for the ‘09 season and move swisher to 1st with an outfield/dh bench: Damon, cabrera Gardner, Ramirez/Matsui

@seveng1147

Ай бұрын

Arod shoulda gone to the Sox

As a Mets fan I watched Sheffield play most of a season in left. I'm not kidding; there must have been at least 30 flyballs that fell to earth in front of him that were scored as hits that season, as he NEVER attempted to make a play where he had to make any quick-twitch moves ...

@warlordofbritannia

6 ай бұрын

Tbf, wasn’t he 40 or so at that point? In his “prime” he would have let only 20 of those fly balls drop! 😂

@yankees29

5 ай бұрын

I used to call him steroid hands….😂

Great video - if nothing else it makes one appreciate even more the players you highlighted in the beginning (B Robinson, Clemente, O Smith etc.). Reggie Jackson in his Yankee years was considered hilarious in the outfield. After the "Reggie Bar" candy bar came out, a NY sports reporter said it wasn't needed as there was already a bar named for Jackson. It is called "Butterfingers."

@garryharris3777

7 ай бұрын

Reggie was a good defender in Oakland. He completely stunk in New York.

@stephenthompson3348

6 ай бұрын

🍫 great joke I*ll remember that one

I'm surprised to not see Adam Dunn. Granted he was only a part time fielder, and for a reason.

@nobeardthepirate9172

7 ай бұрын

Love Adam Dunn.

@BishjamIC

7 ай бұрын

@@nobeardthepirate9172 He was an interesting player. But at best an apathetic defender.

@nobeardthepirate9172

7 ай бұрын

@@BishjamIC He didn't get payed to play defense he got paid to hit homeruns and strike out, and he did historic levels of both. 38th and 3rd all time respectively, or in other words he is Reggie Jackson

@BishjamIC

7 ай бұрын

@@nobeardthepirate9172 Fair point. But it doesn't detract from my point that he was an apathetic defender.

@nobeardthepirate9172

7 ай бұрын

@@BishjamIC it wasn't meant to.

Anyone who watched that last two game performance of the NLDS by Castellanos knows why the phillies play him. Hint: first player ever with back-to-back multi homerun games in the playoffs

Why does your voice rise at the end of sentences

@dillonmaclennan1261

2 ай бұрын

Lol true good callout

@ballerboi4980

3 күн бұрын

It’s intentional, subliminally draws you in to what he’s saying, check out some other video essay KZreadrs and you’ll hear the same thing

Nick Castellanos played good right filed for Phillies past two years. He made several big plays out there. Phillies help him get better in field

The Texas Rangers once had a clubhouse award called the Iron Skillet which went to the player who had the worst defensive blunders each week. The story goes that the iron skillet spent one entire season in Pete Incaviglia's locker.

Unfortunately UZR and DRS are useless before the use of tech to pinpoint players and the ball's positioning. Michael Humphreys published articles about it and has a book detailing how a very good player can be penalized because even though he can have good range up until very recently there were people deciding where the play was made either live in stadiums or using precarious videos. People from BIS are on record saying "the concerns raised by Michael Humphreys and others may have some validity, especially when using data from earlier years with estimated hit locations. However, as technology and video feeds have improved, so has our data quality." How bad could it get? "any hit location was better than no hit location; therefore we plotted the hit locations based on the descriptions available to use, even if that was just a radio broadcast." Even though they go on to say that 6-8% of plays had no video and thus relied on radio or any description whatsoever lets keep in mind that you shouldn't be giving a score to plays based solely on what you imagined happened because even today not every play shows how much the fielder covered. It is quite interesting too that Pedroia was rewarded by rolling in the ground to get to the ball while a rangier second baseman like Canó was penalized for having more range, a better fielding technique AND arm, Canó fielded almost every ball standing up while Pedroia was out of the play in the ground after releasing his throw. It is not surprise thus that also Jeter was penalized because scorers employed by Bill James tended to score plays where he covered a lot of ground as "easy plays" while balls that were hit to a SS that was already shifted were deemed as harder plays because when the TV cut to the SS fielding it appeared as if he moved from SS, which was a lie: shifted infielders usually got better ratings, back in the day not shifting was criticized from Jeter, when he employed the shift the system scored him better but the amount of plays he made were less, thus he returned to fielding as always, people often use videos of Jeter's blunders from late in his career to try and confirm UZR and DRS biases from earlier in his career whom already had spent 8 seasons at SS in the majors. It might not come as a surprise that players from the team that employs Bill James were routinarily rated better, so much that he tweaked the scoring system to avoid penalizing left fielders when the ball hit the fenway left field wall 20+ ft above ground level, Manny Ramírez was after all being penalized before that.

@alwillk

7 ай бұрын

Cano never had any range. He had very strong arm. He finished slightly above average per inning but below average per game at 2b. So depending on what metric you want to use. He was slightly above average or slightly below average.

I'm not sure why, but this is probably my favorite video that you've made. Perhaps I've just had a rough day, but this was incredibly interesting. I don't think we spend anywhere near enough time looking at what players are doing on defense. I remember being a HUGE fan of Jeter and Sheffield. I knew they weren't fielders, but I had no idea they were that bad. It all makes sense, though, if you saw them in their prime. Everyone thought Sheffield was going to be the next boy wonder.

@pepsgaming2691

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for not being like most delusional Jeter fans who refuse to accept the fact that Jeter is one of the worst defenders ever.

@TKar27

7 ай бұрын

@@pepsgaming2691the real thing is that jeters best defensive years aren’t counted in his stats. He’s massive for the position and played consistently, through injury, in a constantly pressure packed environment, in the biggest city in the world. Thinking that the numbers count enough to call him the worst defender of all time is laughable. He managed games, you’d have to have watched his career live to understand that. The argument that he’s this defensive abomination is simply not true. Lacks so much context.

I know people don't really care, for the most part, about anybody who played before they were born, or before they became aware of baseball. But a player that should be mentioned here would be Dick Stuart. Stuart was a hulking first baseman who could hit a ball a mile, but he wasn't called 'Dr. Strangeglove' for nothing. He played from 1958 until 1969 mostly playing for the Pirates & Red Sox. He received MVP votes 3 times, but certainly not for the leather....

@kendallevans4079

7 ай бұрын

LOL.....I'm old enough to remember Stuart!.....To call him a butcher in the field really is insulting to real butchers in every meat dept.!

@yankees29

5 ай бұрын

Like a Dave Kingman type

@kendallevans4079

5 ай бұрын

@@yankees29 Haha....That man had some hurricane force swings, sometimes they hit the ball

You end every sentence with the same inflection on your voice. You have to change that it’s brutal

You didn’t even mention that Hanley ruined Kershaws perfect game with an error 😭

I enjoyed this VIDEO! I like how you take on sacred cows like Derek JETER and use advanced metrics to defend your ARGUMENTS! And after a while I got hypnotized by the rhythm of your patter, how you emphasize the last word of each SENTENCE!

Tommy Lasorda once asked Guerrero what is he thinking about when he in the field. His answer was “I hope that he doesn’t hit the ball to me.” Flabbergasted by his answer Lasorda asked a follow-up question “what else are you thinking about? I” “I hope they don’t hit it to Sax. “😊

Dude what a hot start to the video. I knew jeter would be here but not the very first guy LOL. Your cadence is also incredible you’re my new favorite channel

Jeter made clutch plays. He rarely booted a ball in a clutch situation. He did all that was asked of him. Pitchers said they never worried when a ball was hit to short, especially in the late innings.

@SimonFoster23111971

7 ай бұрын

They only said that because they knew they'd be traded if they told the truth.

@davidfeinberg7829

7 ай бұрын

@@SimonFoster23111971 And you know that for a fact?

@SimonFoster23111971

7 ай бұрын

@@davidfeinberg7829 Historically the worst SS in MLB history (and refused to play any other position in 2674 games apart from the 73 games at DH). Cost the Club at least 2 WS wins (played Gonzalez too shallow in Game 7 of the 01 WS. Booted a groundball in Game 6 from Jeff Conine in the 03 WS). If he held enough power over the Club for a better SS than him to play 3B, then you can bet that they were told "don't say anything about The Captain".

@davidfeinberg7829

7 ай бұрын

@@SimonFoster23111971 Torre wanted the infield in because Mariano might give up a weak grounder. He was playing where he was told. I get it, you didn’t like a guy who was as good a player one could find. Your opinion really doesn’t matter to Jeter. He made millions, won 5 rings and was 1 vote shy of unanimous election to the Hall of Fame. Sure, you matter.

@SimonFoster23111971

7 ай бұрын

@@davidfeinberg7829 With one out and loaded bases, you get a Ground Ball and try for the Double Play, which means that he was out of position. Jeter sucked as a SS. There again, you're a homer for the Stripes, so why am I surprised that you throw someone else apart from you puppetmaster under the bus?

To everyone talking about how Castellanos has no errors this year fails to realize that he doesn’t have any errors because he doesn’t get to a lot of balls, so they aren’t considered errors cause he doesn’t even get a glove on them. I love Casty, but he’s no Willie Mays out there. The defense is better in Philly, but exceptional.

@charleskra

7 ай бұрын

Castellanos hasn't had an error in the last THREE years........and he has an excellent arm.

@Gnar_Dogg

7 ай бұрын

He's terrible at reading the ball off the bat. Hard to get to the ball when you constantly make bad reads.

@schlootle

7 ай бұрын

​@@charleskraExactly, that just proves we value errors too much when we analyze defense. Just because he hasn't recorded errors doesnt mean he isn't a bad defender. He struggles to get to the ball consistently and that leads to runs scoring. He won't get an error if he isn't close to the ball. Lucky for Nick he is a great batter.

This isn't complete without Manny, left field Hanley or Johny Damon's arm😂 entertaining blooper reel of epic proportions

@OH_MY_DOGGG

7 ай бұрын

I was at the game Hanley got hurt although I was seated down the right field line.

@benjii220

7 ай бұрын

Manny wasn't THAT bad. He was below average. He just had a few hilarious blunders, but day to day, he was fine. He didn't DH.

@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507

7 ай бұрын

@@benjii220 Manny was a hilarious blunder machine out there, he got hidden a lot of the time bc of the monster helping him get to balls, but when he made an error it was typically the worst error imaginable😂

@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507

7 ай бұрын

@@benjii220 and he didn't dh bc papi was even worse lmao

@nobeardthepirate9172

7 ай бұрын

​@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507Manny is the only player to accomplish the fan high five double play. +300DWAR

The day the Red Sox signed Hanley Ramirez was the day I realized the the Red Sox enjoy having a guy in Left Field named “Ramirez” who is not as good as everyone thinks he is.

This should be retitled, "Some of the worst fielders since the early 1990s," since I didn't see anyone mentioned whose career mainly took place before then. At least two more Ramirezes should have been mentioned: Manny, and '70s utility infielder Ted. As examples of how deceptive statistics can be, Greg Luzinski was the worst outfielder I ever saw, but he led the NL in fielding percentage for outfielders in 1973 (.993). Zeke Bonura was notorious for his immobility at first base, but he led the AL in fielding percentage in 1938 (.993).

Cecil Fielder's dWAR was almost certainly lower *because* he spent time at DH, not in spite of it. The positional adjustment for dWAR gives a huge hit to DH that you have to be really, really bad at your position to cancel out. Looking at his baseball reference page, Cecil was worth -28 fielding runs over his 13 seasons, compared to -98 positional adjustment runs. On a rate basis, the combination of fielding and positional runs as a 1B is still better than the positional runs solely as a DH. But, maybe he would have gotten worse as a 1B if he'd been allowed to play more. Hard to say, since it didn't happen that way.

10:54 the way dude says "54 errors" has me in legit tears 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Ah baseball, where getting a hit 3 out of 10 times makes you elite, but fielding 96% of balls makes you terrible

I'm sick of sabermetrics. For every sabermetric that says a player sucks at something there's another sabermetric that says he's great at that same exact thing.

You mentioned Castellanos but forgot to mention the guy on the same team who’s taking the DH spot ahead of him… where Schwarbomb

This video demonstrates why the very thought of Jeter being a unanimous HOF selection almost put me in the hospital. Thankfully, a voter realized that Jeter's position required both offense and defense.

Jeter should have played 2B, 3B, or LF. He would have been far more valuable by allowing himself to play where he belonged.

@riding4beers889

6 ай бұрын

NO

Castellanos had 0 errors this year wtf

@ezzio8611

7 ай бұрын

It's says MLB History, read then react.

@Name-pb8mw

7 ай бұрын

He also had -7 oaa

@jackmehoff916

7 ай бұрын

😂29 ppl are dummies

@VinceWhitacre

7 ай бұрын

You have to get to the ball to make an error.

Luv ur vids mtc

Jeter was actually an above average SS in the late 90’s and the early 2000’s but his defense regressed very quickly and they would have benefited from making him the DH and A-Rod the SS. Jeter had already established himself as a clutch hitter but if you look at the defensive highlights of Jeter and A-Rod at SS it’s clear A-Rod is better.

@apeters8

7 ай бұрын

His total zone values are all really bad in the late 90s and early 2000s too. I think he just did not have the range to be an okay shortstop.

@pwx13

7 ай бұрын

A rod shouldn't have been on the Yankees at all as he was hot garbage

@kendallevans4079

7 ай бұрын

He was out there as long as he was because of Steinbrenner.

@pwx13

7 ай бұрын

@kendallevans4079 he won 5 titles, I don't care what little stats say. He accomplished something that is rare. He also has the 4th most homeruns in playoff history. If he played dh maybe his hitting would get worse. At the end of the day Jeter is the best short stop of all time

@alwillk

7 ай бұрын

After 2000 he was last or second to last at SS in RF. He should have been on the corners but the Yankees were winning so much you could hide him. Once 2010 rolled around you could see how bad defensively he was at SS. Because the yanks stopped winning every year.

Pedro Alvarez with Pirates was terrible at fielding 1st base. I was right behind 1st base dugout for a game and he mightve only had 1 error but at least 3 other times bobbled a ball

Most of these guys didn't have much of a defensive rep coming up from the minors, but Dante Bichette was a late inning defensive replacement for Reggie Jackson for his first few seasons with the Angels.

Love how 3 of the first 4 players were all on the tigers at some point lol

I love how 3 of your top 5 wore a tigers jersey at some point

I think it is worth noting- Castellanos was much improved this past season. By no means was he good or even maybe average, but the analytics team in Philly really figured out where to position him to get the most out of what little defensive talent he has to bring him to probably just “below average” rather than “shockingly and historically terrible” to be frank as a fan I’d rather see Nick out there than Schwarber any day

Every time I see video jeter fielding I'm reminded of the onion headline Derek jeter able to make easy play look hard once again

Has anyone mentioned Raul Ibanez yet? Nobody was better at sliding or diving for a ball and missing it by 3 feet

When you brought up Hanley, it reminded me this dummy caused Kershaw a perfect game and once he dropped a liner so he could get a double play knowing the whole world was watching him..he was good with the bat, but second hand embarrassment with his defense..glad we sent him to Boston 🤣

Giambi was safe on the Jeter flip play

I want to know why all these terrible fielders insist on playing infield and the teams let them. Like when Bogarts refused changing positions from SS.

The best part of Sheffield? Trying to later tell people he made errors on purpose to force a trade out of Milwaukee.....😂😂😂

Baseball has the best stats. Great video.

I like to say that when I played as a young man I could play any position on the field but none of them well. I once lost a ground ball in the sun

And I thought Prince Fielder might be the Prince of Fielding or something. Pretty deceptive name.

A 9 year 💰 214 million contract for fielder is exorbitant. MASSIVE OVERPAYMENT that boras came up with

What? No Pete Incavelia? I watched him commit three errors on the same play-dropped ball, booted ball, threw ball into stands. Rangers fans had a joke, "What do Michael Jackson and Pete Incavelia have in common? They both wear gloves on their left hand for no apparent reason."

Imagine having "Fielder" in your name and being a bad fielder

Saying an error is the same as fouls in basketball makes no sense. Errors are usually very costly to the team and don't happenthat often. Fouls are extremely common. Most guys on the floor have multiple fouls per game and they generally are not very impactful.

Kevin was an absolute pleasure to watch in CF! Between KK, Varsho, and Springer, I felt like we got to see a fantastic defense play out there every night.

I watched Hanley Ramirez play SS for the Dodgers in 2014 and lost count of how many crooked throws he made to first base.

@aaroncook2052

7 ай бұрын

Didn't he blow what should have been a perfect game for Kershaw?

@mungweasel4963

7 ай бұрын

@aaroncook2052 he sure did.

Moral of the story…every shortstop is better than jeter ..oh wait

Several very large former baseball players were poor fielders. Adam Dunn was one of them. In his worst fielding individual season he had a defensive WAR of -5.2. I'm sure that there are worse but that's truly awful.

Ken Caminiti is the one who sticks out to me as someome who was a human highlight reel. Mostly because of the rocket launcher he has throwing dudes out from anywhere.

If Bichette had been even just below average defender he probably would have won at least 1 MVP award. 😊

While his career numbers may not say worst fielder ever, Melky Cabrera made one of the worst throws I have ever seen. He spent one season in Atlanta and was atrocious at the plate already, so then one game he has to throw a ball that went over his head and bounced off the wall. Instead of heading towards home plate, Cabrera managed to throw the ball into RF.

I am a Twins fan, so no love for Yankees or Jeter. These stats only measure the back half of his career. Kind of not fair when we don't have stats for his first 8 years when he would have been more athletic.

It's funny how Manny Ramirez isn't even mentioned

@kendallevans4079

7 ай бұрын

Right! Why does that guy have a spell on the media and sportscasters?

Castellanos didn't record an error last 2 seasons. Good enough for me, Rojas covers so much ground it makes up for it! Go Phillies.

@ThatBoyKlink

7 ай бұрын

Imagine still valuing errors😂😂

@keithb5434

7 ай бұрын

@@ThatBoyKlink lmao. he cranked 2 homers off of Strider to advances to NLCS. I wouldn't trade him for anyone atm.

13:26 How can you discusss horrible LF defense by the green monster without even a casual Manny Ramirez mention? That 1998 ALCS costing error Manny made in RF for Cleveland is still one of the absolute worst and most ridiculous errors Ive ever seen and Im a fan of Manny overall. Even Manny being Manny and his later hilarious antics on a curse breaking Red Sox team can't come close to redeeming that ALCS error in game 6 on that Jeter triple. I can't watch that too this day without hurting for Cleveland fans who had to watch that live and swallow that entire decade of dominance without a single ring to show for it. It's one thing when you get beat by clutch hitting or a bad bounce/luck... it's another thing when you get beat on a play as insanely dumb and head scratching as that. Cant help but question the numbers a bit when they make Jeter out as the worst defensive player and somehow leave Manny Ramirez out of the conversation

I need to watch Jeter make a routine play after watching this video 😂

Hard to believe but when Marcus Semien came up with the A's, he was a terrible fielder. Booting routine ground balls and making terrible throws to first.

0:28 this is comically bad - how does he lose balance 7 different ways?!

Derek Jeter reminds me of why I hate sabermetrics.

Sheffield actually had 94 errors in the minors lol

Literally every sentence, you end with a strong inflection on the last syllable. I cannot watch this video haha

11:46 amazing segway. #5 hitting to #4

Castellanos in Detroit and Cincinnati: below average Castellanos in Philly: gold glove

The worst fielders are the full-time Designated Hitters who never put on a glove.

I could be wrong but didn’t Derek Jeter refuse to move from SS when they had a prospect in the system? I think I saw that somewhere at some point

@Gnar_Dogg

7 ай бұрын

Iirc it was A-Rod they wanted at SS but Jeter didn't want to move to 3rd so A-Rod had to do it.

@justadudewithopinions6209

7 ай бұрын

@@Gnar_Dogg the best part iirc A-rod was the best offensive and defensive SS the year before he went to the Yankees. thankfully Jeter was a diva or the Yankee fans would be even more insufferable

@Owenthebaseballguy

7 ай бұрын

@@Gnar_Dogg ah, yes. That’s what it was

This man trying to ruin my entire childhood putting Jeter on this list. lol.

and yet we STILL see so many players commit errors that aren't registered as such by the Official Scorer ...

"The single worst defensive player" doesn't play Shortstop. Full stop.

I hate the Yankees. I grew up as a kid for Jeter's Yankees so learned to Specifically hate them...but Jeter's Defense goes far beyond his Stats. He had the Ability to Rise to make the Play when it mattered most. Thats why he was great. He may flub the odd ball here or there...but he Never flubbed the ones that mattered.

Your list punishes players for longevity

Dave Kingman was terrible at every position. Rico Carty lost many games with his glove. Matty Alou was the worst CF I can remember. Butch Hobson the worst 3B.

Dick Stuart - there's a reason he's called 'Dr. Strangeglove'

Calling Derek Jeter the worst defensive fielder ever is the same as calling Brett Favre the most inaccurate passer ever. Even your caveat re: accumulation isn’t enough. DWar had a defensive adjustment baked in. It’s the accumulation and aggregate totals of those specific stats cited that result in high totals stemming from the logical reasoning you include that got us here - which I 100% agree with. DRS is a measure that benchmarks other SS. Of course that looks worse for Jeter. He wasn’t even the best SS on his team for a chunk of his career. He indeed had terrible range BUT can you deny he had good hands? Just a slight statistical headwind on defensive categories compensated for others, as you said.

@alwillk

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Jeter was fine if you hit the ball to him. Favre on the other hand turned the ball over too much, especially in clutch time when he didn’t need to be a hero. Which is why he only won one superbowl.

I’m lost , Jeter was great as. The others , but not “the Captain “.

Where is Marve Thornbury of the 1962 Mets or Dick Stuart of the Pirates? They has Iron hands...

10:19 best one imo 👌🏼😆

And all that god awful defensive play earned them around 1 BILLION dollars between them…literally 😂

Pedro Alvarez should definitely be on here

Where is the whole Red Sox team at?

Someone hasnt watched Castellanos play the last two years....

Ironic how two men named "Fielder" would only be known best for the batting skills.

I remember Ramirez ruining Kersh's perfect game w/ his error....

Let me correct you. There's no comparison between a basketball foul and a MLB error.

Good god the inflections.

This list isn’t Complete without El Toro

If only teams could have a second DH

Jeter’s glove could be endorsed by U.S. Steel.