Omar Vizquel was considered one of the best defensive Shortstops of all time, earning 11 Gold Gloves and posting a career Defensive bWAR ranked in the top 10.

This isn’t to say that Vizquel couldn’t provide assistance with his offense.  The Shortstop had 2,877 career hits in a career that saw him play until he was 45 years old.  He also had 279 career Stolen Bases, but what holds him back is a low on-base percentage (.336) and a lack of a power game.  Advanced metrics don’t help him (offensively anyway), but in his prime (and evidently well past it), this was a player that teams wanted on their roster.

Following his retirement, Vizquel was involved in a domestic violence scandal that shattered his chances and plummeted his votes.