Can anyone help me find the career leaders in BA/OBP/SLG in close and late situations? I am trying to explain to someone that Derek Jeter and his .289/.387/.420 over 1034 AB is very good, but not the greatest. I know there are plenty of better stats and some hitters that are not very good that may have just as good stats. It's part of an effort to disprove this gentleman's statement that Derek jeter is the most clutch player to ever play.

I've already tryied explaining that there's no such thing as clutch, but I think some more stats might help.

Thanks.

http://www.dugoutcentral.com/blog/?p=1643 offers a pretty good analysis, though his focus is on RBI

His top 5 from 1956 to present is:

McCovey, Aaron, Mantle, Stargell, Brett

http://remarque.org/~grabiner/bosclutch.pdf is interesting also.

His study looks at only active players and he concludes (page 19) the top 3 are:

Lawton, Kendall, Burnitz


Here's another looking at Yogi Berra:
http://cybermetric.blogspot.com/2009/09/yogi-berra-as-clutch-hitter-clutch.html


Hope these help.