by any means... but COME ON!

Yadi should have at least got the gold for catcher.

D. Lee
FPct  .994
RZR   .724
OOZ     24

Helton
FPct  .999
RZR   .808
OOZ     42

Pujols
FPct  .995
RZR   .843
OOZ     51

Helton and Pujols also both have considerably more putouts and assists than Lee.  Helton had a grand total of 2(!) errors this season.  Lee had 7, though Albert had 8.  Adam LaRoche and Conor Jackson were also better than Lee in most defensive categories.  In fact, Lee runs neck in neck with Ryan Howard in most categories, who is considered by most to be a butcher in the field.  

I don't get it.  Martin isn't a great defensive catcher either, he's not even in the same league as Yadi in that respect.  And through for some reason people still think Wright is a premier defensive third baseman, his numbers really slipped this year, a number of NL third basemen performed much better defensively.

These awards are a joke.

I was surprised to find that Rollins had the third highest fielding percentage of an NL shortstop, behind only Tulowitski and Vizquel.

This must be because his zone is smaller than those of Edgar Renteria, Jack Wilson, Rafael Furcal, Khalil Greene, Troy Tulowitski, Alex Gonzales, Jose Reyes, and Omar Vizquel.

Should have gone to Troy or Omar.  

awards in all sports in terms of how poorly misguided the voters are.  And off course having MLB  managers and coaches as voters is more than partially to blame.  Rawlings should be embarrassed by how bad this reflects on them.

Even the fans (including ballot stuffers) could do a better job.  It is just a shame that such a historical award is rendered virtually meaningless because of how poorly it is administered.

Could we ever have a Sabermetricians Gold Glove Award based purely upon an agreed upon statistical method, just like a batting title so the race can be charted during the season?

there was some sort of memo handed out by some one either in the media or with MLB that everyone should ignore all things St. Louis Cardinals.

I know we had a pretty bad year, but man you would think the Cardinals were playing in Iceland with no media coverage what so ever when it comes to stuff like this.

Who else can do what Yadi did to Willie Harris in this game (check out the video clip "Molina's throw from kness"):

http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070722&content_id=2103512&vkey recap&fext.jsp&c_id=stl

I was sitting right behind home plate, and this was the third steal attempt by Harris in the series.  Yadi nailed him all three times, with this one being the third.  I had to go home after the game and check the highlights to make sure I really saw what I thought I did.  Amazing play - best I have ever seen live from a catcher.

I guess it's preaching to the choir what a joke it is for Molina not to be the winner, but I will search for the silver lining: at least Jeter didn't get a GG for being the worst defensive SS in the game this side of Hanley Ramirez.

are nuts
all you have to do is point to the fact yadi has zero gold gloves
its pathetic and cheapens the award
and albert makes plays no other first baseman does
he plays more aggressive and turns the double play like no one else ive seen at first in a long time

the best that the MLB writer can say about Martin is that he played the most games there.

Really?!?

That gets you a GG?

It's not the least days missed award.

"In his second season, Martin led all major league catchers with 145 games played, 1,254 innings caught and 1,065 putouts. He also led the NL with 7.64 putouts per nine innings, 0.61 assists per nine innings and 11 double plays. Martin threw out 29.7% of runners attempting to steal against him, the fourth-highest percentage in the National League."

I believe a catcher gets credited with a putout for a strikeout. The Dodgers had 1184 strikouts this year, the Cards had 945.  So two of those stats are meaningless.  And Yadi had 8 DPs, or 1 every 106 innings, where Martin had 1 every 114.  The other comments have been debunked above.  It's very hard to justify this award except by Martin's offense, which admitedly looks great for his position.  

the gold glove awards are now meaningless

he probably has this award locked for the next 4-5 years at least.

Especially now with Torre in LA the media will be covering the Dodgers alot more. And Martin will be in the spotlight.

So I would say Yadi is out of luck of winning a gold glove anytime soon.

Face it Martin is the up and coming star and is the "sexy" pick for alot of the voters. So as much as I hate it, Yadi is probably shut out of this award for a few years at least.

even though it seems like the voters let us down now, it looks as if Pujols will win Silver Slugger. His line of .327/.429/.568 ranked best among NL 1st basemen. Even though the winner of the SS the last couple of years has had a decent amount of HR's (2006-Howard .313, 58 HR; 2005-Lee .335, 46 HR), the only other 1st basemen w/ atleast 25 HRs in the top 35 is Fielder (.288/.395/.618).

but this is absolutely ludicrous and fucking disgusting.  

Rawlings HQ is located less than a mile from me.  I say we fucking write a presentation and I'll personally print it and hand deliver it.  

are becoming like probowls for Olineman..Names stick if d lee healhty last yr he probably wins it.

surprised though that martin won and not ausmus again..

yadi is hurt i am sure by only playing in about 2/3's of his teams games, but what about palmeiro winning at first a few tears ago when he played 8, that's right, 8! games at first?

in my opinion, that shows how incompetent they are when voting

If you're going to argue that Martin was solid and played in all the games, that's fair.  I disagree, but whatever its your vote not mine.  But then don't give the award to Raphael Pointingthefinger when he plays EIGHT (as in one less than fucking 9) games at a position or to Torii Hunter when he plays roughly half the season before getting hurt.  Be fucking consistent!  I swear they come up with the guy they think should win and then come up with an argument for why he should win it, instead of the other way around.  

But Jeter didn't win the AL...About damn time.  Its a joke when the player who wins the GG for shortstop has less range than the base to his immediate left...not the player, the fucking base.  I bet the left field foul pole had a higher range factor than Jeter did this year.  

How many people voted for Ryan Braun despite his awful fielding?

That should make a pretty clear determination of how bad the voters are. My guess is Braun finished 2rd or 3rd for NL first basemen.