Strike Back at the Gold Glove Awards

Baseball fans now have an opportunity to make up (a little bit) for Joe Crede's slight in the Gold Glove balloting by casting their vote for the third baseman in the This Year in Baseball Awards "defense" category. Not on the defensive ballot? Eric Chavez and Kenny "Dirty Hand" Rogers.

Interestingly the This Year in Baseball Awards "postseason moment of the year" category does not include the Detroit Tigers' five pitching errors. Clearly these awards are far from perfect too.

More Gold Glove Griping

Apparently a "dirty" hand doesn't help you in the infield...

The Chicago Tribune:

For what it's worth, during the regular season Detroit was an average fielding team, allowing the seventh-fewest unearned runs in the American League. The pitching staff combined to commit 15 errors during the season, only 10 more than they did during the World Series. Oddly, Kenny Rogers, who on Thursday was awarded his fifth Gold Glove, had five errors during the regular season, tied with Florida's Dontrelle Willis and Cleveland's Paul Byrd for the most among big-league pitchers.

Huh? How on Earth did this guy get a Gold Glove? What does Kenny Rogers have on Major League Baseball that he can rank at the top in terms of number of errors committed and still get a Gold Glove, and when he has "dirty" hands, he simply gets asked to wash up?

Gold Glove

The Gold Glove awards for the American League came out today.

The Detroit Tigers' Kenny Rogers won a Gold Glove. Pretty sure he also won the Brown Thumb award too.

By the way, Joe Crede should file a police complaint because he got robbed -- Eric Chavez?!? C'mon! Crede deserved the Gold Glove in 2005 and he should have gotten it this year too.