SAM I AMS TEN MOST OVERRATED STARS TO PLAY IN NEW YORK IN THE PAST DECADE

Once again inspired by Abie, I have made a post which lists in my opinion The top 10 most over rated sports stars to ever play in NY In the last decade. This includes all major sports.

The most over rated stars ever to play in new york in no particular order.

1, Derek Jeter: Consistently rated by the stats guys as the worst fielding shortstop in MLB. Very good with a bat but is he worth a 10 year $189 million contract. I didn’t think so either. Derek Jeter What's the deal with Steinbrenner asking Jeter, in that Visa commercial, how he can afford his nights on the town? George, you pay the man. Or, we should say, overpay ($19 million a year through 2010). Jeter's good. Very good. Probable Hall of Famer. But his performance has declined every year since 1999, and he's only the fourth-best shortstop in the AL. Defensively? Adequate, at best, Dont get me wrong I love this guy. But going on numbers alone to the money he makes he is very overrated. But any real yanky fan knows what value he meant to the championship teams. and even every now and then he comes up big.





2, Jaromir Jagr: Jagr is talented but he’s not that talented. Playing with Super Mario in Pittsburgh made people believe that Jaromir was much better than he actually was. After a couple of seasons in Washington people have started to see the real Jagr who just happens to be a newer version of Rosie Ruzicka. Now with the Rangers I think he as overrated as ever. Hes just not what people say he is.



3, Alan houston.As far as I can remember Houston never played a lick of defense in his career. He is vastly overrated And besides that running one hander against Miami in the playoffs he was just soooo un clutch.




4, Chad Pennington of the New York Jets.all I heard was how great this guy is, granted he came back from his surgery but he was average before and average after. He has not anything in his tenure to warrant superstar status in my eyes. His biggest accomplishment was playing with Randy Moss in college. He is an average quarterback bottom line. He makes a living on dump passes and relies on blocking to beef up his numbers. He did have a couple of decent years but thats just because curtis martin was doing his job. chad is just average.



5 , Stephon Marbury the most over-rated player in the NBA
Not only is he problematic, but if we look through his career, every time he departs a team, the team does fantastic. Remember his days in New Jersey Nets? The Nets were the worse team in the NBA, he gets traded for Jason Kidd, and then what happens to the Nets? They go to the NBA Finals twice! He goes to Phoenix and they are mediocre, they bring in Steve Nash, an elite basketball team. Now Marbury goes to New York and look at what happens.... How does Marbury help your franchise???



6, Jeremy Shockey. I'm not saying that Jeremy Shockey isn't a good football player. I'm saying that I think people like to put Jeremy Shockey in the same category as Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates. Shockey has one 70 catch season, which was his rookie year. He has never had 1,000 yard season. He hasn't even had a 900 yard season. The most touchdown catches he has had in a season is 7. His 24 touchdowns in 69 games do not scream elite status. To put it in perspective, Gates has 34 touchdowns in 61 games. He has a 1,000 yard plus season, and two 900 yards plus seasons. Gonzalez has 6 such seasons, including the last 4 seasons. I think the temptation is to lump these three players into the same category as superstar tight ends. I think it is clear that while Shockey is a very good tight end, Gates and Gonzalez are in a class by themselves.




7 , Jose Reyes is overrated, and isnt even the best SS in his division (Hanley Ramirez and Rollins are better. It sickens me to hear mets fans tell me how good this guy is. All I see in this guy is potential. Reyes has yet to put up a really big monster year. and hes just too inconsistent. He doese show flashes of greatness but in spurts. When reyes has no plate diciplan he looks so lost and in over his head . if you just throw him a curveball he swings from his heals. Im not saying reyes is a bad player im just saying hes not what everybody says he is. What ever happened to his 25 Hr potential . Bottom line is Hanley Is far Superior.




8 , Kenyon Martin is overrated. Combine that with his huge contract, and I'd guess he'll be headed to the Knicks sooner or later.When Kmart played for the Nets He was a product of jason kidds greatness. Hell, if I was on that team i would be great. (miki moore) Kenyon is just a hot headed player who cant stay healthy . and the only reason people know who he is .is because he played with the hall of famer Kidd.



9 , Tom Glavine, his career the last few years are all based off of reputation, he gets the benfit of the doubt on borderline pitches more frequently than just about any pitcher. Glavin was never good as a part of the mets no matter what any mets fan says. The time they needed him most. he came up smaller than Armando Benitez in a big spot.



10 , Eli Manning overrated in my opinion and here is why.

1. He was the number one overall pick, and before he can even prove himself worth the pick, he refused to play for the team that picked him (the team that became one of the most talented team in the NFL)

2. Statistic-wise, Manning played 4 seasons in the NFL and has an average passer-rating of 73.4 (never went over 77 for a season). Complete just over 55 percent of his passes, TD - INT ratio is 13.3. He's yet to prove that he can "lead" the team, if it wasn't for the Giants defense this year, they probably wouldn't have made the playoffs

Eli Manning is a dumb Quarterback. He is getting better, but he certainly is not a franchise QB. Without Burress, he would be nothing.The D is great, Jacobs is alright (surprised me), but Manning is no answer at all, unless you're looking for Peyton.

The reason im saying this now is because Eli just came off his best performance as a giant which happened to come in the playoffs. If it werent for a great running attack eli would have been a dead man. Its funny how when Eli decides to go the Chad pennington Route by throwing a ton of dump off passes (nothing more than 6 yards) He has success. Bottom line is if it werent for the blocking he would have had a mediocre game. Oh and one more thing. GET THAT DUMB LOOK OFF YOUR FACE DAMNIT.




Honorable mentions

Drew Henson: (I had too)

Overrated in two sports. He was so highly touted that he pushed Tom Brady into a back-up role in football at Michigan and was given a 6-year $17 million contract by the Yankees to play 3rd base. Now I think most people realize by now that Tom Brady was actually a much better QB than Henson(sarcasm)

I know its not counted cause he never actually played in NY but still.....



Joe Torre ( not a player so I couldent put him on the actuall list.)

is a supremely overrated manager. all the additional credit he gets for all the World Series titles that the Yankees won makes me sick.
The fact is that Joe Torre was blessed with supremely talented teams for all twelve years he was with the Yankees. All twelve of those teams were the best team on paper heading into the season, and all twelve would have been expected to go far into the playoffs, no matter who was managing. (even me)
Joe Torre lived up to what we would have expected from any manager under those circumstances. He did an okay job. In the first five years (with no small amount of luck - Jeffrey Mayer, anyone?), he won four World Series, but in the last seven years he didn’t win any.
Moreover, any sort of close examination of Torre’s in-game managing calls reveals that he was a less than stellar tactician, extremely rigid in his use of the bullpen and the bench, abused his star releivers to the verge of ruining careers, and prone to irrationally overplaying favorites Look, I’m not trying to say that Torre was a terrible manager by any stretch of the imagination. he was good at PR, and he also brought a sense of dignity to the team and was popular with his players and the fans. And those are all good things.
But what it boils down is, are Joe Torre’s managerial skills really worth between $15 to $20 I mean how many extra wins a year was Torre worth to the Yankees? 1? Maybe 2 at most? How many wins did he cost by playing Miguel Cairo at first base?



Pavano? I didnt know if i could put him on the list. All he was was a really bad signing (avi said it at the time.)His walk to strikeout ratio before the yanks signed was allarming. And he was a career .500 pitcher before the yanx signed him . (Ill compile a list of the top ten worst contracts ever a little later Guess who tops that list.... you got it our good buddy carl....)



Mike hampton every body thinks that hampton was so great in the mets 2000 world series year. but in reality he walked the ballpark and only had 15 wins. all i got to say is OVER RATED



jeromy burnitz (Where do I begin?)



robbie alomar ..... SUCKS



I would like to thank Max S, for helping me compile this list.