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Jeter Makes 12 In 2600/200/1000 B4 36 Club

Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 2, 2009

Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Season Finder - players who have 2,600+ hits, 200+ HR, and 1,000+ RBI by age 35 or younger:

  Cnt                           H   HR  RBI From  To
+----+-----------------+-----+----+---+----+----+----+
    1 Robin Yount             2878 235 1278 1974 1991
    2 Al Simmons              2631 277 1654 1924 1937
    3 Vada Pinson             2686 252 1148 1958 1974
    4 Mel Ott                 2732 489 1777 1926 1944
    5 Stan Musial             2781 352 1470 1941 1956
    6 Derek Jeter             2600 213 1027 1995 2009
    7 Rogers Hornsby          2855 295 1527 1915 1931
    8 Goose Goslin            2683 242 1566 1921 1936
    9 Lou Gehrig              2717 493 1994 1923 1938
   10 Roberto Clemente        2704 217 1159 1955 1970
   11 Roberto Alomar          2679 206 1110 1988 2003
   12 Hank Aaron              2956 554 1724 1954 1969

Lotta "brand names" on this list.  It will be interesting to see if Jeter ages as well as some others here - and better than Alomar and Pinson did when they hit the back side of their 30's.

3 Responses to “Jeter Makes 12 In 2600/200/1000 B4 36 Club”

  1. JDV Says:

    Kind of fuzzy criteria. With this sort, "by age 35 or younger" doesn't mean the same thing for each player. It appears to be based on what b-r lists as a player's age for a given season, including all numbers from their respective '35' seasons and prior, while excluding all numbers from later seasons. Obviously birthdays fall all over the calendar, so some players get credited for entire seasons played after their off-season 35th birthdays, while others get credit for only partial seasons played after their in-season 35ths and no credit for the following partial season during which they are still 35.

    Jeter will turn 35 on the 26th of this month, so he obviously reached all three threshholds before his 35th birthday. It'll require some game-by game research to see how many of the others actually achieved that.

  2. JDV Says:

    I couldn't let it go. Good news for Jeter fans! If the criteria are to reach those threshholds before one's 35th birthday, the list is down to five (Yount / Ott / Jeter / Hornsby / Aaron). None of the others reached 2,600 hits until after his 35th birthday.

  3. Jgeller Says:

    Jeter is 1 run away from 1500. He would join Ott, Aaron, Gehrig, Musial, and Hornsby from that list.
    Jeter also has 200 SB (285, but let's equate it to HR). Yount, Aaron, Pinson, and Alomar from that list.

    Finally, 39 players including Jeter have those totals above regardless of age reached. 25 are in the Hall of Fame (Rickey Henderson doesn't show up yet). 8 players aren't eligible yet for the Hall vote (including 4 active). So that's 25 out of 31 with those qualifications are in the Hall of Fame. It seems safe to say right about now that Jeter is a Hall of Fame talent.