NYT Presents: Jeterography

In celebration of Derek Jeter’s 3,000th major league hit, the New York Times ran a really cool infographic displaying the relative frequencies of where those 3,000 hits went.

http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/15/sports/baseball/jeter-3000-hits.html

In addition to tracking where all of Jeter’s hits have gone, two graphics also compare his first 1,500 hits to his second 1,500 hits:  not surprisingly, the second 1,500 consists of fewer home runs and fewer hits to left field.  A similar graphic shows Alex Rodriguez’s hit patterns.

There are several other interesting data displays here, including year-by-year histograms for all 28 MLB players with 3,000 hits.