Wednesday, November 11, 2009

NL Gold Glove Winners

Just like in the AL, the voters have no idea what a Gold Glove is about in the NL. Once again I will use UZR (ultimate zone rating) to find out which players that won actually deserved the award and who got robbed. Lets look at the winners and who should have won (bolded players are the correct decisions).

P - Adam Wainwright
C - Yadier Molina
1B - Adrian Gonzalez (3.8)
2B - Orlando Hudson (-3.3). Robbed: Chase Utley (10.8)
SS - Jimmy Rollins (2.7). Robbed: Rafael Furcal (8.0)
3B - Ryan Zimmerman (18.1)
OF - Shane Victorino (-4.1). Robbed: Nyjer Morgan (27.8)
OF - Matt Kemp (2.6). Robbed: Randy Winn (16.5)
OF - Michael Bourn (8.6). Robbed: Mike Cameron (10.0)

I have to give the voters some credit as there are some first time winners. It seems like the voters get too enamored with errors totals and are lazy. A player can't make an error if he doesn't get to a ball. Its a shame to see that Nyjer Morgan, the best defensive player in the NL this year, didn't win a Gold Glove. Hopefully, as the years go by and voters get more acclimated to defensive stats other than errors, the rightful winners will be chosen.

1 comment:

The Sports Chef said...

You can get UZR from fangraphs.com. Great website for obscure stats.