Tuesday, November 6, 2007

2007 Gold Gloves Announced

I had completely forgotten about this, but they just announced this year's Gold Glove winners on ESPNews.

C: Ivan Rodriguez, Russ Martin
1B: Kevin Youkilis, Derrek Lee
2B: Placido Polanco, Orlando Hudson
SS: Orlando Cabrera, Jimmy Rollins
3B: Adrian Beltre, David Wright
OF: Carlos Beltran, Jeff Francoeur, Aaron Rowand, Andruw Jones, Grady Sizemore, Torii Hunter, Ichiro Suzuki

(Apparently there was a tie, which is why there are four NL outfielders.)

Initial reactions:
No Jeter!
The idea that Jimmy Rollins is a better fielder than Troy Tulowitzki is hilarious to me.
Grady does not deserve this award, but that's OK.

Keith Law was on right after the announcement, and said he thought Tulo should have won, and also Austins Kearns would have been a better choice than Rowand. He added that Granderson and Coco were both clearly more deserving than Sizemore. Fair enough.

More later- I want to compare these to the Fielding Bible awards, and see how much being a good hitter helps. But I'm gonna need to find a computer that actually works to be able to do much of anything.

2 comments:

matthew said...

by my estimation, they only got two correct - andruw jones and carlos beltran.

hoody said...

NO YADIER!!! this is an outrage!!! perhaps it was the injury but i think he just got cheated.

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