NYaT Readers Pick The Best Hitter of the Decade

I wanted to close out the poll on the right by looking at the results. Thank you to all who voted (and there were quite a few of you this time).

Who Has Been the Best Hitter of the Decade?

		Albert Pujols	55%
		Ichiro Suzuki	20%
		Alex Rodriguez	13%
		Manny Ramirez	0%
		Other	10%

Albert Pujols wins it in a landslide. I have to agree there. He didn't even play in 2000 but has been raking it at an incomparable level ever since.

It was an oversight at first not to put Derek Jeter on here but I wanted to see how many of you voted "other". Not sure if Jeter is the "other" you were trying to vote for, but, regardless, other came in 4th.

Manny Ramirez got zero love from the fans. I wonder what would have happened to him in this poll had the steroid revelations not come out about him this year.

I also wonder what would have happened to A-Rod had he not got caught up in the Spring Training steroids mess. 13% seems awfully low for him considering how good he was this season.

A lot of you value the base hit and Ichiro got a lot of those and 20% of your vote.

But congrats to Albert Pujols who won the NYaT hitter of the decade. We'll take a look at the pitchers of the decade a little later.