Over Rated?

By

Frank Solares

I have been on a writing vacation from my blog due to a little setback and the fact that since I started writing my book, I cant write a simple sentence.

That said, the article that included baseball cowards that voted A-Rod, Derek and Joba as the top 5 overrated players in baseball had me a little ticked off. When writing something or stating an opinion always attach your name.

These baseball players came off as a little jealous and frankly a little sad. We will not even discuss Joba, he is who we thought he was. The fact that this kid is still in the league after he was "miss used" is a great thing.

What left me in shock and confused were the two names at the top 5 of that list. Please explain to me how a baseball player that moved positions for the best interest of his career and team, a player that has 622 Home runs, 1862 RBI, 2728 hits and 1789 runs scored, be overrated? A player that is a career .303 hitter and player that has 3 MVP awards and a world series title be overrated. He is the greatest right handed hitter of his or any generation.

The other name on this list was Derek Jeter, now I am a Jeter fan and a self proclaimed Jeter Apologist, BUT JETER?

Ok where do I start? He is 16 hits short of 3000 hits, and ohhh by the way no Yankee in the 100 plus year history as ever achieved this. He has the most career hits by a short stop, a list that include the following names, Ozzie Smith, Cal Ripken, Ernie Banks, Robin Yount and Honus Wagner.

The Captain of the New York Yankees, 5 World Series rings, will finish in the top 10 all time in runs scored, All Star MVP, Rookie of the Year, and World Series MVP!

Holds the All Time career mark in the post season in, HITS, Runs Scored, and is 3rd only to Manny and Bernie in Home Runs. (yeah yeah he had more chances, shut your mouth, that comes with the territory, he still had to hit the ball.)

So to the idiotic, shameless, cowards that voted Alex and Jeter as top 5 OVERRATED baseball players, look in the mirror and SHUTUP! DONT HATE!