Shortstop JAWS Leaders

Get Jay Jaffe's bookThe Cooperstown Casebookwhere he outlines who should and shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame based on his JAWS metric used here.

JAWS (Jaffe WAR Scoresystem) was developed by sabermetrician Jay Jaffe as a means tomeasure a player's Hall of Fame worthiness. A player's JAWS is theircareer WAR averaged with their 7-year peak WAR. Note that onlybatting or pitching WAR are used in determining the averages at a givenposition. The current Hall of Famers are then grouped by position anda position average JAWS is computed.

For some positions, theaverages are skewed due to a lack of players at that position, sooverall HOF average hitters are added to that position's average untilthe total count of actual and average players matches that of the mostinducted position (RF).

More details of JAWS can be found here.

Note that some players listed as HOFers may have been inducted for non-playing reasons.

Rankings of Negro League players should consider that Negro League data is not complete. Research is still ongoing and we’ll continue to publish updates as more information becomes available.Negro Leagues Data: Frequently Asked Questions(NEW)

HOF - Indicates Player is a Hall of Famer.
Bold - Indicates Player is not yet eligible for the Hall of Fame or was First. Not retired by 2019.