OT: AL Gold Glove winners announced

youngLion · Post #1 » by **youngLion** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:48 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4642325

Mauer
Texeira
Polanco
Jeter (for some reason)
Evan Longoria
Adam Jones
Torii Hunter
Ichiro Suzuki
Mark Buerhle

The idea that Jeter has four of these awards now is absurd. The voters do realize that you don't hit with a fielder's glove right?

The_Hater · Post #2 » by **The_Hater** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:22 am

youngLion wrote:
The idea that Jeter has four of these awards now is absurd. The voters do realize that you don't hit with a fielder's glove right?

I can think of 5-6 more deserving SS's right off the top of my head.

The Gold Glove, year in and year out, is the worst voted on award in baseball. Simply awful.

And far too many of the older writers/voters look at just error totals... If they even look that deep.

Post #3 » by **Schad** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:17 am

Torii Hunter winning in CF is just ridiculous...not only did he miss a bunch of games, he graded out at or below average. Franklin Gutierrez played 400 more innings in center and UZR had him saving 27.1 runs/150 games (best at any position, by a large margin), but because he isn't a big name he really didn't stand a chance.

youngLion · Post #4 » by **youngLion** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:32 pm

Hater's right, of course. The Gold Glove has become somewhat of a joke, and it's a tragedy. Defense is honestly my favorite part of the game to watch and it's too bad that they can't sort this out to a level of basic respectability.

Modern_epic · Post #5 » by **Modern_epic** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:16 pm

The_Hater wrote:
youngLion wrote:
The idea that Jeter has four of these awards now is absurd. The voters do realize that you don't hit with a fielder's glove right?

I can think of 5-6 more deserving SS's right off the top of my head.

The Gold Glove, year in and year out, is the worst voted on award in baseball. Simply awful.

And far too many of the older writers/voters look at just error totals... If they even look that deep.

You can't pin this one on the writers. I have a suspicion they would do a mildly better job, for instance perhaps not voting a DH as a Gold Glove 1B. This one is the coaches and managers.