Sunday, December 21, 2008

AL Gold Gloves; Pitcher

Last year I said this: "I really, really don't care whether a pitcher gets a gold glove. They don't play enough defense to register on the Win Shares scale, except in hundreths of a decimal point. Only a few register Fielding Runs Above Average."

This year, no starter in the AL had a positive WS fielding total, at least at the tenths of a decimal level. Burnett, Galarraga, Laffey, Pettite and Sonnanstine fared the best. I gave it to Pettitte last year. WARP would support Pettitte or Sonnanstine as choices.

Pettitte has a ton of hardware. Since I don't care about this much, I give it to Andy Sonnanstine.

That's a makeup call for the Iron Glove, which I'm giving to Scott Kazmir.