Bret Sabermetric wrote: What we're saying here, seems to me, is that we've never had an adequate offensive shortstop (outside of HoJo, and he hardly counts as a shortstop), which is fairly amazing. Is there a team anywhere that went over four decades without a superior offensive season at a position? So what you're saying is, most teams have had an above average shortstop, and that it takes a rare, very poorly run team to have had the Mets' history at SS?