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.