Analyzing The 2010 NL Gold Glove Winners
The 2010 NL Gold Glove Award winners are out, and now that we know who won, we can take things to the next natural step and do some analysis to figure out who deserved it, and who did not.
Rating a player’s defense is, of course, a difficult task, and there’s no consensus preferred tool. Eyes are subjective, and all the different statistics each has its own share of major problems. So what I’m going to do here is compare the NL winners to where they ranked in the recent Fielding Bible voting. Voting for the annual Fielding Bible awards is done by a panel of experts, with some consideration given to the opinions of fans who watch the players every day, and thus their results make for a handy point of comparison.
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