Best of Defense Wizard Rey Ordóñez

Rey Ordóñez was an unbelievable defender. Check out some of his flashy and Amazin’ defensive plays.



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[jameshughes]

Best infield in history with Olerud at 1st, Alfonso at 2nd, Ventura at 3rd & Ordonez at SS. They were awesome to watch play.

[frankanon]

Never gets old watching Rey. He's the best defensive shortstop I've ever seen and I've been watching since 1975

[chris]

Rey lived down the street from my house. I grew up with his son. Rey was always very humble, at times he would gather the neighborhood kids and play ball with us. Rey is the GOAT.

[jonathansantana]

Easily one of the greatest defensive short stop in the game never spoken about. Most underrated defensive player in mlb history.

[nizloc]

Im an Angel fan. And had a poster of this guy on my wall as a kid.

Was in the shadows of jeter, arod and nomar.... bad time to be a light hitting shortstop....

But his defense was unreal

[Quepasaaqui]

Man I miss Shea stadium so much I miss this era of baseball LFGM!

[muxux]

Rey is one of those great defenders that were underrated and one of those under estimated players by the organization. The spotlight being on Derek Jeter in NY undermined his magnificent work! He gave his body for the team! Cheers to Rey wherever he is!

[jct]

So what if he was a light hitter. He won three consecutive Gold Gloves from 1997-1999. During 1999 and 2000 he set a MLB record for shortstops by playing 101 consecutive games without committing a fielding error. And he wasn’t an automatic out. In 1999, batting 8th, he hit .258 and drove in 60 runs on a team that made the NLCS. But yeah oh what a fielder.

[gabrielrosado]

I'd loved Rey Ordonez met him at old Shea Stadium he signed this two profile picture of himself for me and I had a lil buddy who for being 14 was as big a Met fan as me I had it framed and surprised him for his birthday he's still has that picture to this day

[williegaga]

Rey Rey was somethingelse with dat glove.He was my favorite MET in da 90s/early 2000s.I have his #0, 1, & 10 Jerseys.

[aces]

First saw him play at a game in April 1996, field level seats on third base line. There was a lot of hype about his glove, but I wanted to see if it was true. He didn't disappoint. Ed Taubensee scorched one through the hole--or so I thought. Before I could turn my head, Ordonez slid to his right to snag it, threw to first for the out. There was no hole on that side of the field when he was there.

[dno]

Always and forever my favorite professional athlete

[MatthewSmith-cvop]

Excellent defensive player. If that guy was able to hit more than a lick he would have been a tremendous athlete.

[dharmabeachbum]

It was a real pleasure watching Rey play shortstop. Ozzie Smith is the only SS that I would put in his category. ..Watching these clips brought back a lot of memories.

[Ryuken]

Still my favorite Shortstop of all Time! Amazing glove work! Just Amazin!

[m.alexanderzagorski]

The first highlight was a 7-6-2 putout on Opening Day Monday April 1, 1996 a Mets 7-6 win over St Louis at Shea in which my Dad and I attended.

[jasonreid]

Even tho we didn’t always have a good team in the 90s Rey was awesome to watch.

[mrx]

The play behind second base when al was pitching was all in one motion, insanely gifted defensive shortstop

[mothersmilk]

The best defensive player I ever saw. His range was ridiculous. His arm was a cannon.

[biggsweaty]

These were my junior high/freshman days, man. Great memories, was a good unit those late 90s early 2000s. Lovve this post