Wednesday, November 7, 2007

2007 Gold Gloves

It's that time of year to start bickering about baseball awards and who gotted robbed. Obviously being a Cardinals Fan, I'll start in the NL, because honestly, I don't follow the AL. P. - Greg Maddux: Once he retires who are they going to give it to?
C. - Russell Martin: Here's the first beef. Y. Molina had a better defensive year and is a better defensive player(best catcher in the game right now). I guess I can see him losing some votes because he missed some games, but due to the fact that his stellar year last year(defense remember) was somehow not good enough to beat out Brad Ausmus, he should have got it this year. He did throw out more runners than were safe.(54% of runners).
1B. - Derrek Lee: Beef #2. Pujols won the Gold Glove last year. Played more games. Had fewer errors. In fact, the only category that was lower than D. Lee was errors, which is a good thing. The argument ends there. He should have won it.
2B. - Orlando Hudson: Probably should have gone to Brandon Phillips. He played more games. Had less Errors and had a pretty good overall year.
3B. - David Wright: Beef #3. Rolen fell into the same category as Molina as far as missing games. He is the best Def. 3B in the game, however, if not of all time. That being said, if he didn't play enough games to get the award then it should have gone to Either G Atkins of the Rockies or P Feliz of the Giants. I would have given it to Atkins since no one from the best fielding team ever(they broke the record for highest fielding % as a team) won a Gold Glove, which just seems odd. Plus David Wright isn't as good as Atkins or Rolen. And he's from one of the worst two states in the U.S.(NY & Mass.)
SS. - Jimmy Rollins: T. Tulowitzke could have a legit beef, but J-Roll had a good enough year to get the award.
OF. - Too many people to choose from so I won't even bother going over this Position.

Like I said earlier, I don't really follow the AL enough to care who wins over there, cause if you ask me, Baseball is 9 vs. 9 not 10 vs. 10...There are 9 positions not 10.

To sum everything up; The AL might win everything, but they also spend the most money and ruin the game with the DH, so it sucks. And they should change the Gold Glove choosing process. Instead of voting they should make it a mathematical calculation like the BCS. Take in all the stats and give them a numerical value. subtract for games missed, and somehow make a calculation to cover clutch plays and difficult plays, and add it all up to get a number. The fielding version of the OPS or whatever it's called. They could still vote, but the voting would be part of the equation and the numbers would be the other part. I think less people would have a complaint if they switched to something like this instead of just voting, where big city bias can't help but be involved.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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