"As you can see, it's hard enough finding a shortstop who's playing 150-something games into his mid-30s; it's even harder to find a shortstop who's been as great as Jeter," said Goldstein, the managing partner of Baseball Prospectus.
Player-manager Lou Boudreau initially had a hard time finding a place in the lineup for Doby, who had played second base and shortstop for most of his career.
Defensively, Havens has a strong arm and the hands of a shortstop.
It sounded diminutive, jittery, quick-footed — all the archetypal qualities of a shortstop.
"The Pittsburgh Pirates," he added with a grin, "lost a hell of a shortstop".
"That's one of the benefits as a shortstop.
They played all of last season without a shortstop.
In the fourth round, the Yankees drafted another member of Hank's Yanks: Matt Duran, a shortstop from New Rochelle (N.Y).
Their triple-A shortstops are Josh Rutledge, 26, who started 58 games for the Colorado Rockies last year in place of injured Troy Tulowitzki, and Ryan Jackson, 27, who has started one major league game at shortstop.
But the completion of a trade with the Cardinals, who need a shortstop, apparently means that St . Louisis not interested in trading one of its young arms for Angels shortstop Erick Aybar.
