Comments on: A brief musing on the Silver Slugger awards

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:10:12 +0000

It doesn’t take much baseball knowledge to see who is a really good offensive player. Stats are everywhere and easy to understand.

As for defense, there is so little statistical evidence to tell us who is a real good defensive player. UZR has it’s downfalls. Is Teixy really that bad? He had a -4.1 UZR/150. Getting that GG tells fans he’s a pretty damn good defender.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:30:51 +0000

I agree with all these points.

(I agreed with them back when I first said them… earlier in this post and over the past couple of days.)

By: DonnieBaseballHallofFame

DonnieBaseballHallofFame — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:16:44 +0000

I think people cry more about gold gloves because it is the only defensive award for position players. MVP, Rookie of the Year are all solely looked at due to offensive. I do not know why but they are. Also Rawlings spends some money promoting Gold Gloves for many years.

I think Torii Hunter gets awards due to being well liked. I never thought he was that good in the OF. Side note that “home run” he saved in the all star game was no homer.

I like Hunter too, especially when he is over running balls against us like in game 1 ALCS this year, and when with Minni when he threw that ball over the fence in what i think was the ALDS one year… Anybody remember that one?

By: leokitty

leokitty — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:53:20 +0000

Micah Owings wuz robbed

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:37:21 +0000

Robots need love too

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:53:05 +0000

Youkilis only played around half of the season at 1B.

By: The Honorable Congressman Mondesi

The Honorable Congressman Mondesi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:46:12 +0000

Eh, I liked the joke and let it fly. It’s not like I’m some crazy person who can’t help but respond to Bo constantly. Tell me what percentage of his posts I’ve replied to – I can’t have replied to him more than a handful of times, ever. I know you can do it with your mystical RABbi powers.

By: Joseph Pawlikowski

Joseph Pawlikowski — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:41:03 +0000

Yet you respond to this alleged robot.

By: The Honorable Congressman Mondesi

The Honorable Congressman Mondesi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:33:30 +0000

You’re like f*cking clockwork, you’re Joe Morgan’s wet dream. I’m convinced you’re not even human, I think you’re some algorithm or something that just spews the same ‘why would anyone write about [insert term from post here]‘ comment into every thread.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:30:09 +0000

I have no problem with Jeter, because he played in way more games and accrued more batting runs. And had slightly better raw power numbers. And a slightly better wOBA.

And J.D. Drew is exempt from awards, I believe, until he gets way grittier.