Cyrus wrote:agkagk wrote:s e n s i wrote:your annual reminder that derek jeter has 5 gold gloves, vladimir guerrero has a gold glove, and so does rafael palmeiro for a season where he DH'd in 80% of the games. absolutely **** pointless, trivial award that i legitimately thought no one took seriously until now.
This is the exact reason i like that having 3 finalists per position.
It should help the writers in the long term from perrenially voting for the derek jeters of the world over the john macdonalds and yunesky betencourts or the world (or which ever 230 hitter should have won it).
Voting has changed.
Twenty-five percent of the selection total was determined by SABR’s Defensive Index metrics, while the other 75 percent was determined by votes from all 30 managers and up to six coaches from each team. Of the latter pool, managers and coaches were limited to voting on players in their own league, and they weren’t allowed to vote for any players on their own team. The utility Gold Glove wasn’t determined with any votes, but rather via a defensive formula calculated by SABR and Rawlings.
Yeah, I can’t say for certain the new way is accurate, but it’s definitely several notches above what came before, and I don’t personally have a better formula.
Meantime, I just concluded a) the GGs are out and b) Moreno won one
…by virtue of seeing this thread go for pages in a couple days. Just looked it up and, yep. Gonna have to keep avoiding DBack highlights for the foreseeable future for the sake of mental health. Speaking of which, I wonder if some are as devoid of doubt as they are seeming. In a way that’d be the better explanation. I know my biases; if we’d traded Varsho for a stud starter I’d still have been disappointed in trading away the odds on favourite for best Jay backstop ever. But for a…trying to think of the least controversial way of putting this…an extraordinary, wonderful role player? That one’s gonna sting for a while. But why is everyone so sure Varsho will move to center? We have a light hitting great fielding cf already and don’t have to trade our best prospects to get him, surely we’ll move heaven and earth to keep Kiermeyer?