Greatest Shortstop - 1990's

[Stars_Rangers_82]

This thread will allow you to vote for who in your opinion feel is the greatest player at his position for a particular decade. The criteria I will be using is 1,000 games played for position players, 250 games started for SP's, and 400 appearances for relief pitcher's.

Here are the candidates for the 1990's Shortstop, and the poll will be closed at 12:10 CST on Tuesday, June 21st.

G R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS WAR
Jay Bell 1487 890 1529 309 55 155 667 641 1095 73 0.272 0.349 0.429 0.778 35.5
Jeff Blauser 1196 610 1008 184 27 106 445 511 791 53 0.263 0.359 0.408 0.767 19.8
Mike Bordick 1287 480 1098 177 24 51 426 366 542 68 0.258 0.322 0.347 0.669 17.1
Royce Clayton 1064 476 1004 183 34 56 385 291 724 161 0.260 0.313 0.368 0.681 14.8
Tony Fernandez 1215 620 1273 245 48 56 491 468 493 133 0.285 0.356 0.399 0.754 18.7
Greg Gagne 1081 403 903 181 21 64 388 248 676 54 0.256 0.307 0.374 0.681 14.6
Barry Larkin 1293 834 1447 269 51 137 639 658 513 266 0.303 0.388 0.466 0.854 51.7
Cal Ripken 1475 768 1589 305 20 198 827 527 570 17 0.278 0.341 0.443 0.783 41.3
Omar Vizquel 1321 689 1344 216 30 33 429 467 464 237 0.279 0.343 0.357 0.700 25.6
Walt Weiss 1168 517 977 144 26 19 307 574 529 84 0.258 0.358 0.325 0.683 11.2

[Wookie]

Going with Ripken here...but as we all know, Vizquel and Larkin are also damn good.

[CoreyR]

Barry Larkin gets my vote. Although I love Cal Ripken!

[Mudge]

Barry Larkin was an outstanding shortstop (and so, too was Ripkin, but by 1997 Ripkin was playing full-time at third).

[RickD]

I will never vote against Ripken! I have a gazillion of his cards and he is my all-time favorite non-Yankee shortstop.

[Old Sweater]

Barry Larkin. Have to give a nod to an old Denver Bear that had a great MLB career. One thing WAR don't account for is what a player gives to the game and not many has gave as much as Cal Jr.

[Scoobean]

Ripken gets a slight advantage over Larkin even though Larkin may have the better stats. I watched the Orioles a lot in the 90's when they were losing and then later in the 90's when they bought all those players to win and Ripken was always the backbone to that team win or lose.