Derek Jeter will hang up his spikes after Sunday's season finale against the Red Sox. And when he does, he'll leave the game as the 88th-best player ever — at least per Baseball Reference's career WAR leaderboard.
Admittedly, that's a bit trollish. Evaluating Jeter's storied career based solely on a single number doesn't capture his full resume — sixth all-time in hits, tenth in runs scored, five World Series rings. And it ignores his mythic status in New York and in baseball in general over the past two decades. He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer for sure, and would be so unanimously if the voters weren't such capricious curmudgeons.
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