Yankees: Andruw Jones thinks Jeter is a unanimous HOF; is he worthy?

On Tuesday, Atlanta Braves great Andruw Jones proclaimed that New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter should be the next unanimously voted member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but is he worthy?

This weekend, Cooperstown will welcome it’s first-ever unanimously voted member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. Ahead of the ceremonies, TMZ caught up with Atlanta Braves great Andruw Jones. When asked about Mo’ getting into the Hall unanimously, Jones proclaimed, “If Derek Jeter don’t get 100 percent, we got a problem then.”

This got me thinking, is Jeter worthy of being voted into the Hall unanimously?

First, let’s get one thing straight: I am of the mindset that if a player is Hall of Fame worthy, he should be voted in unanimously. In my mind, you’re either a Hall of Famer or not and in Jeter’s case, he is Hall of Fame worthy.

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However, in the system we currently operate in, players are docked a vote here and there for varying reasons to the point where it took 80+ years for one player to get 100% of the vote.

With that in mind, greater shortstops than Jeter were inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame and didn’t receive the unanimous vote. Players like Ernie Banks (83.3%), Honus Wagner (95.1%), and Cal Ripken Jr. (98.5%) to name a few.

This begs the question: if these players didn’t receive 100% of the vote, should Jeter?

We’ve all heard the phrase, “two wrongs don’t make a right.”

In this instance, this phraseology should apply. The ineptitude of the writers who for one reason or another decided not to vote for the aforementioned players should not come into account in this case.

The fact of the matter is that Jeter is Hall of Fame worthy. In fact, he spent his entire career on one team in the free agency era and won FIVE championships with said team. What’s more, he also leads all Hall of Fame shortstops in HITS (3465) and RUNS (1923).

There is no question that Jeter is an all-time great shortstop in the game.

So, is New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter worthy of unanimously being voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame? The answer is a resounding YES!