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Wednesday, November 02, 2005Gold Gloves announcedAnd the award for 'the best offensive player who can kinda-sorta play defense without embarrassing himself (too much)' goes to... Mark Teixeira? Cabrera deserved one as well, but at least there were other shortstops that you could make an argument for (granted, the winner, Derek Jeter, isn't one of them). That is not the case over at firstbase, where Darin Erstad is easily the greatest defensive firstbaseman of his generation (even if he does wield one of the most pitiful bats in the game). Nothing against Mark Teixeira, but there can be no debate on the subject - Darin Erstad is it. I'm not going to get angry over the snub (but if you're into that kind of thing, Halos Heaven has it), because all it does is confirm that the award is an absolute fucking joke, which we were already well aware. Comments:Personally, I think Adam Kennedy deserved a Gold Glove more than anyone else on the team. Erstad is certainly great at first, but he has a GG there already, so I am not overly put out by it and OC had quite a number of would be errors, but the scorekeeper would never call them errors for some reason. AK, however, was practically a god at 2nd...I have never seen the kind of range at 2nd that he showed off this year. Granted I haven't seen Hudson play much, and he may well have been quite deserving, but I can't see anyone having played 2nd better than AK this year. Richard, have you seen Davenport's article at BP? (http://tinyurl.com/a76su) Erstad does have better range, but Teixeira and Erstad's numbers otherwise are almost identical. It's not like Teixeira isn't worthy. I think Kennedy was the most deserving of all the Angels, but he does play in the same league and position as Orlando Hudson, who I believe is the premiere defensive second baseman in all of baseball. |
