AL Gold Glove Winners

by Tom Dakers on Nov 2, 2011 12:57 AM EDT

Here are the AL Gold Glove winners:

C: Matt Wieters, Orioles

1B: Adrian Gonzalez, Red Sox

2B: Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox

3B: Adrian Beltre, Rangers

SS: Erick Aybar, Angels

LF: Alex Gordon, Royals

CF: Jacoby Ellsbury, Red Sox

RF: Nick Markakis, Orioles

P: Mark Buehrle, White Sox

A little heavy on the Red Sox. I want to complain about Erick Aybar but I'm just happy they didn't pick Jeter, so I can't complain too much. Nick Markakis seems like a bit of a stretch too. Other than that, it seems like one of the better years for the Gold Glove voters.

What do you think?

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Aybar doesn't strike me as an awful choice

what does strike me as an awful choice is neither Escobar even making it as finalists

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by benk on Nov 2, 2011 1:01 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs

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by Pikachu on Nov 2, 2011 5:43 AM EDT up reply actions

Because Cabrera has more RBIs

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by Frag on Nov 2, 2011 6:48 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

Alex Gordon.

really? maybe o just think its crazy a royal won something.

by ddbumpus on Nov 2, 2011 1:07 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

+1 to all of it lmao

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by jays182 on Nov 2, 2011 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions

no way

he’s as good as Brett Gardner. There’s just no way.

by Woodman663 on Nov 2, 2011 5:30 AM EDT up reply actions

He led all LFs in assists, I think

I guess that was there consideration, that and he probably made very few errors. They use the old defensive metrics for Gold Gloves so fielding percentage and assists would factor heavily in the decision. Gordon actually was good defensively this year, just not as good as Brett Gardner.

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by JaysfanDL on Nov 2, 2011 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah

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by Meatface on Nov 2, 2011 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions

Im just happy Jeter didn't win

hopefully we’ll see Hech and Gose winning Gold Gloves in the near future

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by GreaZzy on Nov 2, 2011 1:19 AM EDT reply actions

Hech

Will he drive in enough runs and make a ton of jump throw plays?

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by Frag on Nov 2, 2011 6:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Wheres Encarnacion.

Total rip off.

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by JohnnyG on Nov 2, 2011 9:26 AM EDT reply actions

He won the Gold Glove for AL DH.

They just forgot to announce it.

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by Jevant on Nov 2, 2011 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Well

Palmeiro won it in 1999.

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by Frag on Nov 2, 2011 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

I just looked that up

28 games at 1B?!?

by T_Mizz on Nov 2, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions

You should have seen his range at DH.

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by Frag on Nov 2, 2011 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions

Yea he can go from one end of the dugout to the other—sometimes he dives down into the clubhouse too!

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by Minor Leaguer on Nov 2, 2011 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

This actually happened?

He was a DH and played 28 games at first?

Uhhhh…

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by T.Haynes on Nov 2, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

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by siggian on Nov 2, 2011 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Overall, not a bad list

The infield is fine, Aybar is probably the only question mark but still an ok choice. Didnt watch alot of Alex Gordon but gotta think Gardner is a better LF and for CF i’ll probably go with Bourjos and some other before Jacoby.

Atleast this year there isnt such glaring wrong like picking Jeter

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by noname3 on Nov 2, 2011 12:33 PM EDT reply actions

They saved that for the National League by picking Ethier for RF

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by JaysfanDL on Nov 2, 2011 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions

But he had a 1.000 fielding percentage that is amazzzing

But honestly I go over to the ESPN MLB Stats page and look at fielding for right fielders, guess who are the only two with 1.000 fp Eithier and Markakis, guess who won the GG Eithier and Markakis, seriously why?

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by Bluebirdz on Nov 2, 2011 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions

At least Markakis has a history of being a good fielder (although not as good this year)

Ethier doesn’t even have that. Gold Gloves are notorious for going off fp, it’s why Jeter has so many, he doesn’t make many errors. Of course, it’s easy not to make errors on balls you can’t get to.

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by JaysfanDL on Nov 3, 2011 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions