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    Question Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Derek Jeter, Albert Pujols didn't deserve Gold Gloves, say stats - Joe Lemire - SI.com


    Using advanced statistics (that are the source of much argument here on B/S), Joe Lemire proves that Ike deserved a GG. Interesting, more argument over advanced stats vs. Fielding Pct/Errors...

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    According to this article the Gold Glove voters got a lot of choices wrong, so it's hard to single out one of them. He probably deserved it, but when he's going up against a previously very good defensive first baseman who is a monster with the bat, it's gonna be hard to dethrone. Sucks that's the way it is, but we've all known for a while Gold Gloves are like that
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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    If I had a vote I would have voted for Ike but Pujols wasn't a terrible choice. My big beef is that this is one of Albert's worst years at first (still good) and got looked over in years past.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Albert's monster bat should be irrelevant. It's a gold glove, not a gold bat.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    love the props to Chase Headley in the article, btw

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    I realize the bat shouldn't play a part. I agree. But it does.
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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Yeah, I know. That's why I said "should be" instead of "is".
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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Clearly, having seen the GG and SS votes by now, the managers and players should NOT be voting for these awards if we want them to be meaningful. Ike probably deserved the GG, Jeter didn't deserve his, and Pujols did get outperformed for the SS by Votto. I honestly didn't expect Ike to be seriously considered because of a) youth, b) lack of name recognition, and c) until I read this article, I'm not sure I noticed how much better Ike was than other first basemen.

    I don't think Pujols was a poor choice, just curious about everyone else's thoughts.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    I don't see how Davis didn't get recognized. Seems like he was on Web Gems every other day. I remember his first two weeks in the league he had three impressive catches falling into the dugout.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Yeah, he had those plays at the dugout railing early on, but I guess having been through Mo Vaughn and Carlos Delgado, I took Davis' defense for granted. I think after a month or so, I assumed that that was what an average first baseman was like defensively. If he was on Web Gems more often than I realized, then I'm wrong, but I thought he got on for those railing flips, and then kinda slunk back into just making all the plays he was supposed to. Granted, I didn't watch any baseball tonight this season.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Quote Originally Posted by HollywoodLeo View Post
    Albert's monster bat should be irrelevant. It's a gold glove, not a gold bat.
    I agree, what do they have the Silver Slugger Awards for then.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Jeter got totally jobbed out of the NL Gold Glove.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Quote Originally Posted by Saber View Post
    Jeter got totally jobbed out of the NL Gold Glove.
    He should have won one at every position, including DH.
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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kingdom_of_Zito View Post
    He should have won one at every position, including DH.
    Nah, I think that should have gone to A-Rod.

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    Re: Did Ike Davis Deserve To Win A Gold Glove?

    **** all of you
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