The real Gold Glovers

2009-11-02T15:33:26-05:00

2009-10-30T16:05:26-04:00

2009-11-02T15:33:26-05:00

haligonian23

No City 825509

4 Aaron Hill should win the gold glove this year....he won't. What a year .286, 36HR, 108RBI and gold glove defense...as a SECOND BASEMEN! Too bad for him that he goes unnoticed in Toronto. But more importantly, great for TO fans! 7501947

2009-11-02T08:25:45-05:00

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cwartillery

Marietta 460551

3 Defensively, Pujols is not even in the same league as Teixeira. Not sure about his arm but his glove could be at 3rd and possibly adequate at SS. 7493760

2009-11-02T00:53:54-05:00

DaReS(BX)DrAmA

Bronx 614127

2 TEXIERA WOULD OF HAD MY VOTE and ARRON HAD A GREAT YEAR the rest of the list seems good but I'm pretty sure there was other swhos more deserving 7493326

2009-11-01T07:31:50-05:00

Baseball_lover

Basking Ridge 721845

1 I know i'm opening myself up to alot of anti empire abuse for this but Texiera is a better defensive first baseman than Pujols... Althought they are both excellent defenders 7486423

The 2009 <a href="http://www.fieldingbible.com/" target="_blank">Fielding Bible</a> awards are in, and as usual these awards, voted on by a panel including such worthies as Joe Posnanski, Peter Gammons, Rob Neyer and people who break down video for a living, are a lot more credible than the Gold Gloves. If you have any serious doubts about that, just look at who won them: FIRST BASE—ALBERT PUJOLS, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS SECOND BASE—AARON HILL, TORONTO BLUE JAYS THIRD BASE—RYAN ZIMMERMAN, WASHINGTON NATIONALS SHORTSTOP—JACK WILSON, PITTSBURGH PIRATES/SEATTLE MARINERS LEFT FIELD—CARL CRAWFORD, TAMPA BAY RAYS CENTER FIELD—FRANKLIN GUTIERREZ, SEATTLE MARINERS RIGHT FIELD—ICHIRO SUZUKI, SEATTLE MARINERS CATCHER—YADIER MOLINA, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS PITCHER—MARK BUEHRLE, CHICAGO WHITE SOX I want to highlight a couple of players in particular here. The first is Crawford, who picked up 99 of a possible 100 points in the voting. That's the most in the history of the award. The other is Gutierrez, a spectacular defender who probably deserves to finish in the top 10 in the Most Valuable Player award voting even though he's only an adequate hitter. I wrote a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2F2009%2Fwriters%2Ftim_marchman%2F04%2F30%2Fteam.defense%2Findex.html&ei=i0XrSrqZL4y4NpPzsIQM&usg=AFQjCNEKjtMeVhIq_uJdY7tYuAZlnyXvVA&sig2=kqoPFltbeIRqoZJrUePLZQ" target="_blank">piece</a> earlier this year on Seattle's defense that might be worth looking at if you're still wondering exactly how this team won 85 games -- outfield defense was a huge part of it, and as both the Mariners and last year's Rays show, evaluating defense properly is as close to a Moneyball-style secret formula as there is in baseball today. http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/813/744/thumb/tim-marchman-fannation.jpg 3 IL

Tim Marchman

Chicago 814404 84341 The 2009 <a href="http://www.fieldingbible.com/" target="_blank">Fielding Bible</a> awards are in, and as usual these awards, voted on by a panel including such worthies as Joe Posnanski, Peter Gammons, Rob Neyer and people who break down video for a living, are a lot more credible than the Gold Gloves. If you have any serious doubts about that, just look at who won them: FIRST BASE—ALBERT PUJOLS, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS SECOND BASE—AARON HILL, TORONTO BLUE JAYS THIRD BASE—RYAN ZIMMERMAN, WASHINGTON NATIONALS SHORTSTOP—JACK WILSON, PITTSBURGH PIRATES/SEATTLE MARINERS LEFT FIELD—CARL CRAWFORD, TAMPA BAY RAYS CENTER FIELD—FRANKLIN GUTIERREZ, SEATTLE MARINERS RIGHT FIELD—ICHIRO SUZUKI, SEATTLE MARINERS CATCHER—YADIER MOLINA, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS PITCHER—MARK BUEHRLE, CHICAGO WHITE SOX I want to highlight a couple of players in particular here. The first is Crawford, who picked up 99 of a possible 100 points in the voting. That's the most in the history of the award. The other is Gutierrez, a spectacular defender who probably deserves to finish in the top 10 in the Most Valuable Player award voting even though he's only an adequate hitter. I wrote a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2F2009%2Fwriters%2Ftim_marchman%2F04%2F30%2Fteam.defense%2Findex.html&ei=i0XrSrqZL4y4NpPzsIQM&usg=AFQjCNEKjtMeVhIq_uJdY7tYuAZlnyXvVA&sig2=kqoPFltbeIRqoZJrUePLZQ" target="_blank">piece</a> earlier this year on Seattle's defense that might be worth looking at if you're still wondering exactly how this team won 85 games -- outfield defense was a huge part of it, and as both the Mariners and last year's Rays show, evaluating defense properly is as close to a Moneyball-style secret formula as there is in baseball today.