<font color=goldenrod>AL Gold Gloves:

P Mark Buehrle
C Joe Mauer
1B Mark Teixeira
2B Robinson Cano
3B Evan Longoria
SS Derek Jeter
OF Ichiro Suzuki
OF Franklin Gutierrez
OF Carl Crawford

lol Jeter again. Joke award.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Not saying Buehrle isn't a great fielder, but him winning it was obvious with the way everybody whored his Opening Day play. He probably has it locked up for however long he continues pitching ala Maddux.</font>

If Youkilis didn't get hurt near the end of the season, he probably would have taken the award at 1B.

SS is the only spot where it should have been someone else. If anything it gets Jeter a few more millions out of his new deal.

Buehrle deserved the award. It's his third Glove. He's proven he is the best at his position, fielding wise, in the league.

that play he made like a couple games into the season was insane

To be fair, no shortstop played gold glove defense in the AL this year. Maybe Alexei Ramirez. But there's no way Jeter deserved it.

BTW Yankees fans, the guy with the best defensive metrics in the league, Brett Gardner, didn't win a gold glove.

Jeter actually led AL shortstops in fielding percentage this year, was 8th in Range Factor, and 2nd in Zone Rating. This may have been the one year he actually deserved it.

He also turned in a -1.1 dWAR and a -4.7 UZR. He was well below average.

Yeah Derek Jeter isn't good at SS.

His defensive WAR was the 24th worst in the majors. Or to put it another way, his defensive WAR was 1,134th best in the majors.

GOLD GLOVE

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah. Ridiculous. He'll probably keep getting Gold Gloves after he's retired.</font>

http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...d_fielding::13

<font color=goldenrod>He did deserve it. I'm just saying the award is so fickle that some voters probably penciled his name in for Gold Glove automatically after it.

Hell, BSPN labeled it the play of the year.....on Opening Day. Every Web Gem for the rest of the year was compared to it.</font>

Obviously being The Captain of Yankees is the number 1 reason he wins Gold gloves. Number 2 reason probably is because can many people even name another AL Shortstop? I have a lot of trouble trying to.

Jeter will make one sick play all year and the managers will all agree that he deserves the award. Buehrle may be a victim of this too though.

Jeter definitely didn't hit well enough this year to deserve another GG.

What?

Yeah I don't know about the Gold Glove.

might go on some kind of shooting rampage if Tulo doesn't win the Gold Glove

He's got everything going for him. He was the best hitting shortstop in the NL this year and the guy who won the last 3 gold gloves missed half the season.

Also he's a really good fielder, but that never matters much when they vote for GGs.

The way the gold gloves usually work out, Jay Bruce won't win one this year because he's not a name. They'll probably give Justin Upton one cause he's pretty well known. But after that I have no idea who's gonna get the OF spots. Angel Pagan deserves it but he's a no namer too.

Probably give one to stupid ass Shane Victorino because everyone knows who he is.

He is a stupid ass.

Cliff Lee - Phillies
Carl Crawford - Angels
Jayson Werth - Boston
Adrian Beltre - Angels
Adam Dunn - Texas
Victor Martinez - Boston
Rafael Soriano - Tampa
Mariano Rivera - Yankees
Derek Jeter - Yankees
Paul Konerko - ChiSox
Hiroki Kuroda - Pittsburgh
Jorge de la Rosa - Toronto
Carl Pavano - Yankees!
Jake Westbrook - San Diego
Aubrey Huff - San Fran/retire
Juan Uribe - KC
Carlos Pena - Tampa
Jim Thome - Yankees
Vlad Guerrero - Twins
Manny Ramirez - Twins
Magglio Ordonez - Cubs
Orlando Hudson - Twins
Derrek Lee - Atlanta
Lance Berkman - Angels
Andy Pettite - Yankees/retire
John Buck - Houston
Javier Vazquez - Twins
Brian Fuentes - Toronto
Adam LaRoche - Toronto
Brandon Webb - San diego
Miguel Tejada - Baltimore
Jason Varitek - Cleveland/retire

...Well, look at what you wrote:

"Jeter definitely didn't HIT WELL (Offense) enough this year to deserve another GG (Defense)".

The Gold Glove award is about DEFENSE, not OFFENSE...that's what the Silver Slugger Award is for.

However, i must agree Jeter didn't deserve a Gold Glove Award. He's not the best shortstop in the AL. But, his NAME is pretty big, so, he got the nod.

The GG award has become about offense just as much as defense. Look at the winners this year - every one is a great hitter except probably Gutierrez. Most of those guys are solid fielders but the best at their positions? I don't think so.

NL Gold Gloves:

P - Bronson Arroyo
C - Yadier Molina
1B - Albert Pujols
2B - Brandon Phillips
3B - Scott Rolen
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
OF - Carlos Gonzalez
OF - Michael Bourn
OF - Shane Victorino

Tejada isnt coming back to Baltimore.

But they do need a 3b, SS, 1B and a couple pitchers.

<font color=goldenrod>NL's list makes a lot more sense, Victorino is a moron though.

Couldn't help but chuckle at the Mets fans who thought Ike Davis was actually going to win it at 1B with so much more star power at the position (not to mention the NL 1B are generally really good, deserving defenders).

Since most of the awards are voted on by the same people, I'm willing to bet that everybody who voted Votto for MVP put down Pujols for GG and vice versa. That's the way these awards work as long as the runner-up is a halfway competent defender at the same position as MVP.

So yeah, Votto as MVP = confirmed</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Royals get:
RHP Vin Mazzaro
LHP Justin Marks

Athletics get:
OF David DeJesus</font>

Really surprised Rolen beat Zimmerman. Phillips beating Utley was a shocker too.

I think the pilot was lit on the hot stove today

I guess Mazzaro drew the short straw. Now let's see how much Billy Beane pays up for Iwakuma.

<font color=goldenrod>New Nationals uniforms:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8...2113565920.jpg

Bet they only switched because they couldn't spell out "Nationals" consistently.</font> :shifty:

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Cliff Lee- Rangers
Carl Crawford- Angels
Jayson Werth- Red Sox
Adrian Beltre- Red Sox
Adam Dunn- Nationals
Victor Martinez- Cubs
Rafael Soriano- Braves
Mariano Rivera- Yankees
Derek Jeter- Yankees
Paul Konerko- White Sox
Hiroki Kuroda- Mariners
Jorge de la Rosa- Rockies
Carl Pavano- Twins
Jake Westbrook- Twins
Aubrey Huff- Giants
Juan Uribe- Giants
Carlos Pena- A's
Jim Thome- Twins
Vlad Guerrero- Rangers
Manny Ramirez- Indians
Magglio Ordonez- Tigers
Orlando Hudson- Reds
Derrek Lee- Cubs
Lance Berkman- Rangers
Andy Pettite- Yankees
John Buck- White Sox
Javier Vazquez- Mets
Brian Fuentes- Twins
Adam LaRoche- Orioles
Brandon Webb- Dodgers
Miguel Tejada- Pirates
Jason Varitek- Red Sox
AJ Pierzynski- Brewers
Ryan Theriot- Dodgers

Jon Garland- Cubs
Kerry Wood- Cubs
Scott Podsednik- Brewers
Johnny Damon- Royals

Thats me thinking that some players will go back to where it started- although I know Pods really started with the Mariners, but really got his start with Milwaukee. And I know Garland never pitched for the Cubs, but was drafted by them.

<font color=goldenrod>The voice of the Mariners, Dave Niehaus, has died at age 75.</font>

Wow. I heard the name, but I was reading this thread, I saw some Ron Santo love, and I have this preminition that he won't last that much longer, sadly. Love the guy.

RIP Dave Niehaus

Ron Santo will live forever.

I always like the DC uniforms best. Shame they got rid of them.

http://presidentsrace.files.wordpres...niforms-dc.jpg

Royce Clayton has been casted to play Miguel Tejada in the Moneyball movie.

Your WS Champions. LOL

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