Chase Utley is on a legendary World Series tear and is completely owning the Yankees.  From ABC News:

Even in the World Series, Utley doesn’t pause to admire his homers. He’s had plenty of opportunities, too, connecting five times to tie Reggie Jackson’s record set in 1977 with the Yankees.

Another big swing from Utley got the Philadelphia Phillies started, and they broke out of their hitting funk in an 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 5 on Monday night.

Utley hit a three-run shot off A.J. Burnett in the first inning and a solo homer off Phil Coke in the seventh, becoming the second player to have two multihomer games in a World Series. Willie Aikens did it for Kansas City against the Phillies in 1980.

Pretty amazing,  I started thinking about how Chase Utley compares to other great second basemen (there aren’t very many), and I think he’s got a shot to be the best of all time.  He’s no worse than third-best, as only Rogers Hornsby and perhaps Joe Morgan were better players than Utley.  As Joe Buck pointed out, Utley has the highest career OPS out of any second baseman besides Hornsby.  But Hornsby pretty much played a different game (1915-1937), so comparisons between the two are difficult (for what it’s worth, Utley’s career OPS+ is 129, Hornsby’s is 175…but I also doubt that Hornsby played in a league with the level of competition that Utley faces).

Regardless of where he’s ranked, he totally deserves this letter: