{"id":14555,"date":"2017-11-10T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:06:50","slug":"national-screw-job-rendon-and-taylor-miss-out-on-gold-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14555","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Screw Job: Rendon and Taylor miss out on Gold Gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you don’t know just how good an OF Taylor is … check out the stats below. (AP Photo\/Nick Wass via nbcsports.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Note: this is the 2017 version of the “Gold Glove Awards versus Defensive Metrics Review<\/a>”\u00a0<\/strong>recurring post that I do each year, even if I havn’t titled it as such thanks to the tie-in to our players).<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Keith Law<\/strong>‘s chat yesterday<\/a>, someone asked him about his reaction to Gold Glove awards being announced and he said something along the lines of “I have no more Fs to give.”<\/p>\n

(btw: someone named “Wally” asked a Nats question at the very beginning … same as our own Wally?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, its not hard to understand Law’s stance on the awards: they’re often given more based on reputation than accomplishment on the field, they’re often tied to a player’s offense (inexplicably, since its a defensive award), and we’ve had more than a few ridiculous awards in years past (see Derek Jeter<\/strong> in his waning SS years, or the year Rafael Palmeiro<\/strong> got one for “playing” 1B when he mostly DH’d).<\/p>\n

However; the voting has gotten much better the past few years; last year there wasn’t a single Gold Glove award that I thought was “fishy.”\u00a0 Every guy who got an award last year was a deserving winner and you could make a compelling argument for them.<\/p>\n

Not this year.<\/p>\n

Here’s your 2017 Gold Glove award winners<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Pos<\/th>AL GG Winner<\/th>NL GG Winner<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
C<\/td>Martin Maldonado<\/td>Tucker Barnhart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1B<\/td>Eric Hosmer<\/td>Paul Goldschmidt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2B<\/td>Brian Dozier<\/td>D.J. LeMahieu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SS<\/td>Andrelton Simmons<\/td>Brandon Crawford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3B<\/td>Evan Longoria<\/td>Nolan Arenado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LF<\/td>Alex Gordon<\/td>Marcell Ozuna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CF<\/td>Byron Buxton<\/td>Ender Inciarte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RF<\/td>Mookie Betts<\/td>Jason Heyward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P<\/td>Marcus Stroman<\/td>Zack Greinke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

In my estimation,\u00a0 more than 50% of these awards went to the wrong player this year.\u00a0 Here’s the guys who I had a problem with:<\/p>\n