Derek Jeter Wins Another Gold Glove, Internet Stat-Lovers … Don’t Revolt?
1-liner, Baseball November 11th. 2009, 3:30pmDerek Jeter: The lady-killing Yankee shortstop won his fourth career gold glove Tuesday. It was his first since 2006. In a brief google search, we couldn’t really find anyone ripping Jeter. Joe Posnanski said that Elvis Andrus of the Texas Rangers was the best defensive shortstop in the league, and that would have been his choice. Even though errors are not the end-all, be-all when it comes to fielding (nor is “Dewan plus-minus” or “UZR”) … Andrus made 22. Once again, baseball’s offseason is off to a rousing start – announcing award winners when people have tuned out baseball, and passing on instant replay! [AP]
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November 11th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
http://stupidsportsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/derek-jeter-is-best-defensive-shortstop.html not sure if this is a rip.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:33 PM
fixed
November 11th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
NL GG’s just came out.
Yadi and Waino, go Birds.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Rob Neyer killed the jeter pick.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:36 PM
It’s really about rings.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
i found someone.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
/Red Sox’d
November 11th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Hef-who-shall-not-be-named did.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
i think you’re misrepresenting what ponanski said. i read it as he liked andrus, but with the 22 errors, plus jeter’s defensive stats, he was fine with the pick
November 11th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
I think people are just over the fact that these awards are a joke. The funny thing is that they can’t even get their fucked up criteria right.
It seems like they give the award to decent fielders (or below average in the case of Jeter) who can hit well. If that’s the case, how the fuck did Aaron Hill not beat Polanco? Love Polanco’s glove but the difference between he and Hill is tiny when it comes to fielding.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Looking busy is my M.O.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Nothing beats Rafael Palmeiro getting a gold glove after playing
1928 games at first base the entire season.November 11th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Here’s mine analysis: yawn. I’m done getting worked up over who gets the gold gloves. They didn’t do terrible this year
Mauer – Could have been him or Laird
Teixeira – No problem there, even though he had a down year
Polanco – Good choice
Longoria – Good choice
Ichiro – Good choice
Hunter – Considering no corner OF should win a gold glove (except Ichiro) it’s a good choice
Jones – Love the guy, but shouldn’t have won. Sorry Ill.
And of course Jeter shouldn’t have. But that’s ok. Good for him.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I think its tough to get too fired up about the Jeter pick when
a) Of all his gold gloves, this one he came closest to deserving
b) He actually wasn’t that bad a choice and
c) there were other choices/omissions that were much worse
November 11th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
I think you mean /Mangini’d
November 11th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
OT:
pre-thanksgiving thanksgiving ready in about a half hour. gonna be awesome.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
im jealous…thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
If the Gold Glove meant anything, I’d say it’s a crime against humanity that Franklin Gutierrez didn’t win this one.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Aren’t GG voted for by Managers and GM’s?
November 11th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
He really needs to shorten that to Frank.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
the indians trading him still sickens me.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Yeah, that ended up being a helluva trade for the M’s.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Think Aaron Hill was the biggest snub. The statheads will disagree with me but that’s okay.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Racist.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Send me a piece of chocolate moose Sir
November 11th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Errors are meaningless for a couple of reasons.
First, official scorers are heavily involved. Secondly, they’re heavily involved. Thirdly, if you have good range—like Andrus does—you’re going to get to X more balls than Derek Jeter does a year. Those are likely tough ones where you can’t throw with perfect balance. The more balls you get to, the more chances you have at committing an error.
Lastly, for IFers having a good 1B can save you on X many throws.
November 11th, 2009 at 5:40 PM
EXACTLY!!!! Errors are a bad measure of how good a fielder is. A slow, fat guy that hardly gets to any balls can have less errors than a speed guy that gets to most balls but doesnt always make the play on them.