Gold Glove Awards were announced last night. I didn?t see them when they came out because I was doing important things like watching ?Serenity? for the tenth time. Shiny.
Look, I?m not going to pretend that I have any way to measure defense that is any better than what anyone else has. Quite worse, in fact, as I don?t have nearly the grasp on the relevant defensive metrics that the experts and many of you guys sling around. ?When I talk about defense it?s almost always based on the eyeball test, because it?s really all I got. To the extent I have any authority on it ? and I don?t claim to have much if any ? it?s because I tend to watch a lot of baseball.
All of that said, if anyone can explain to me how Adam Jones is a better outfielder than Mike Trout, J.J. Hardy is a better shortstop than Brendan Ryan and Jimmy Rollins is a better shortstop than Brandon Crawford ? who wasn?t even nominated, by the way ? I?d really like to hear your arguments.
Otherwise: eh. The Gold Glove voters (i.e. random coaches who watch less of the other 29 baseball teams than most serious baseball fans and dedicated baseball writers do) have had worse years than this. ?Years so bad that, by this point, it?s silly to even work up any bile over these things. If anything I?m disappointed that the awards weren?t worse because at least then we could have fun with them.
Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/31/what-will-pass-for-gold-glove-outrage-today/related/
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