Wieters, Hardy, Markakis named Gold Glove finalists.
by Stacey on Oct 31, 2011 8:25 PM EDT
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The 2011 Gold Gloves will be announced tomorrow at 10 p.m. Why not in the middle of the day, you ask? Because for the first time, they will be televised (on ESPN2). They've announced three finalists for each position, and for the first time are awarding separate awards for each of the outfield positions.
The Orioles have three finalists: Matt Wieters at catcher, Nick Markakis at right field, and J.J. Hardy at shortstop. Like many of you, I don't put much stock in Gold Gloves, but it would still be great if any of these guys could lock one up. It'd especially be great if Wieters won as I truly believe he deserves it. Nearly every defensive measure shows him to be a superior catcher. If he does win, I don't feel like it would be undeserved as I did two years ago when Adam Jones was named the winner.
To see the complete list of finalists for both the AL and NL, check out ESPN.
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haha I guess that's true
by that logic this’ll be his year.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
CamdenDepot did a bit on this.
Ever looked at Markakis’s and Jones’s home/away fielding splits? Really makes you wonder…
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
link!
http://camdendepot.blogspot.com/2011/10/bad-outfield-defense-or-bad-fielding.html
"Roberts is unconscious!!!!" - Jim Hunter, after Brian Roberts hits his second HR of the night. 9/21/09
Wow
really interesting. I’d like to see if other OFers that have significant time at Camden Yards show similar results. Not sure there’d be enough of a sample size even among the division.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I think its also interesting that Jones has the smallest difference
It would make sense that area assigned to the center fielder is the most consistent from park to park, where as quirks would tend to be located in left and right, like the right field corner in Camden Yards.
I don't know though
Isn’t there a fair amount of weird shit in CF as well? Triangle in Boston and Miami come to mind.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I also would have expected the opposite results
with players having better UZR ratings at home, due to difficulties associated with playing in unfamiliar parks on the road.
Thanks for linking that, Gonfoo.
I’ve love to dig into this myself, but I don’t know if the data is available publicly.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
No problem sir.
I don’t think there are any outfielders out there right now that have the innings logged in Camden Yards to not be considered SSS. :(
Although maybe if we were to combine the innings of all the outfielders considered Above Average overall, we could have enough innings? I dunno if that would count. But it seems like if All outfielders get worse when they play in Camden Yards, that’d be a correlation to hang your hat on.
"Roberts is unconscious!!!!" - Jim Hunter, after Brian Roberts hits his second HR of the night. 9/21/09
It really is great stuff
It does make one wonder about the statistic’s validity.
If you look at those UZR ratings or whatever
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