As a devoted Yankee fan I can say without doubt … no, no he wasn’t.
Also as a devoted Yankee fan I am happy the Yanks won tonight but sad that A-Roid got to be the hero and tie the Great, beloved and honorable Willie Mays. Willie remains in the top tier of Hall of Famers and A-Roid will hopefully never be voted in.
I rather like the situation where the two leagues differ on the DH. I find it interesting during the world series.
For that reason I dislike inter-league play during the regular season. Takes away some of the intrigue.
Here’s a good stat for the totally inept 2015 Brewers - they didn’t have any blown saves in April. This bears watching as the team has so few late inning leads that they may actually be able to sneak through the season without one.
To my thinking, this is the best argument for keeping it, in the AL only.
The World Series should be plenty compelling without this small specific degree of intrigue being saved for it. The NL/AL difference is interesting in interleague games throughout the year (of which we will typically only have one at a time, now).
I’m not really sure what amount of intrigue is being taken away. As a fan of the game, I appreciate there being 16 more teams that my team can play, and having better access to seeing more players live.
The Giants-Angels game today ended with the final out being ‘runner hit by batted ball’.
With 2 outs in the 9th and the tying run on 3rd base, Angels LF Matt Joyce hit a line drive between first and second, where the runner on first couldn’t get out of the way. It goes down in the scorecard as a single, and an unassisted putout for Giants 2nd baseman Joe Panik.
Nobody on the telecast could ever recall seeing a game end in such a fashion before.
Well, shit.
Um… duh? This is very, very well known in the stats community. Jeter was a horrible defensive shortstop. Over a 20 year career, he was 246 runs worse than the average SS and his range was abysmal:
(Rfield on the Fielding Runs Above/Below Average, RF/9 compared to lgRF/9)
Some extra reading:
Nah, I saw all of Jeter’s career. He was a gteat shortstop.
Stats be damned vis a vis “your eyes”? 
Though he was a very good offensive SS, I’ll give you that!
I posted this on April 23, 2015 -
Just thought I’d say, I’m happy today too. 