Troy Tulowitzki, Todd Helton and the Rockies lost the popularity contest that is the Rawlings Gold Golve. The Colorado Rockies not only led the league in fielding percentage, but they set a Major League Baseball record for their mark during the 2007 season. It is quite confusing that not one single player from the Rockies team that set the MLB record are not included on the Gold Glove list. What is the rational for this? Well, just in case we missed something let's take a look at the fielding stats from last season.
Jimmy Rollins came away with the award for the NL at Short Stop. Let's compare the two. Below are the #'s starting with Errors, Fielding PCT, Assists, Put Out's, Total Chances and Double Plays:
Troy Tulowitzki - 11 .987 561 262 834 114
Jimmy Rollins - 11 .985 479 227 717 110
In the words of the great Chris Farley......"Hmmmmm That's a mystery."
Troy has a better fielding percentage, more assists, put outs, and double plays. He had over 110 more chances then Rollins - meaning that he got to more balls. Even when Tulo did get all those extra chances he turned them into outs, all while committing the same amount of errors.
It's extremely disappointing that an award of this magnitude (it's very important to many major leaguers), can overlook the best player at his position. Really, it is not even close statistacally. It is very frustrating as a fan, after watching Tulo play well all year and not get recognized for his efforts. It's also important to note that Tulo lead the Majors in all of those categories, not just the National League. Statistically he was the best fielding short stop in all of baseball during the 2007 season.
It baffles me that an award based on performance during the season was given to a player with substantially worse statistics. A fair comparision would be when the movie Braveheart and Babe were both up for an academy award. The award would of gone to Babe. That's right, the talking pig would of beat out one of the best movies ever made. It looks as if the talking pig just walked away with a gold glove. What a sham!
Jimmy Rollins came away with the award for the NL at Short Stop. Let's compare the two. Below are the #'s starting with Errors, Fielding PCT, Assists, Put Out's, Total Chances and Double Plays:
Troy Tulowitzki - 11 .987 561 262 834 114
Jimmy Rollins - 11 .985 479 227 717 110
In the words of the great Chris Farley......"Hmmmmm That's a mystery."
Troy has a better fielding percentage, more assists, put outs, and double plays. He had over 110 more chances then Rollins - meaning that he got to more balls. Even when Tulo did get all those extra chances he turned them into outs, all while committing the same amount of errors.
It's extremely disappointing that an award of this magnitude (it's very important to many major leaguers), can overlook the best player at his position. Really, it is not even close statistacally. It is very frustrating as a fan, after watching Tulo play well all year and not get recognized for his efforts. It's also important to note that Tulo lead the Majors in all of those categories, not just the National League. Statistically he was the best fielding short stop in all of baseball during the 2007 season.
It baffles me that an award based on performance during the season was given to a player with substantially worse statistics. A fair comparision would be when the movie Braveheart and Babe were both up for an academy award. The award would of gone to Babe. That's right, the talking pig would of beat out one of the best movies ever made. It looks as if the talking pig just walked away with a gold glove. What a sham!
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