A Golden Achievement: Gloves handed out
posted in 2006-07 offseason, awards |The All-Star Game’s starting battery — Kenny Rogers at pitcher, Pudge Rodriguez at catcher — added another achievement, a gold glove for each hand. In the AL only Detroit had more than one player win a gold glove.
Rogers… well, that was no surprise. It’s his fifth. He’s a cat on the mound. Pudge… that’s no surprise either, really, although I’m sure the competition is getting tighter and tighter. It’s his 12th.
The others were: Texas Rangers first baseman Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, Oakland Athletics third baseman Eric Chavez and outfielders Torii Hunter of the Minnesota Twins, Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners and Vernon Wells of the Toronto Blue Jays.
What do the stats — or at least, how one analyst put them together — have to say about the winners? Baseball Think Factory found several other deserving Tigers.
Sphere ItMy Gold Gloves? Rodriguez, Shelton, Polanco, Inge, Uribe, Crawford, Patterson, Suzuki. That’s a bunch of Tigers. Is it really any wonder they led the majors in ERA? It wasn’t all the pitching.”
[...] Kenny Rogers and Pudge Rodriguez were very deserving gold glove winners. But the Tigers probably should have had more. [...]