 Sunday, November 11, 2007
Trouble Maker
"I don't take anything he says to heart. Obviously I think I can be better defensively. But I have a Gold Glove, and that's the bottom line, and that's something I'm very proud of, and I feel like I'm getting better and better defensively, and obviously managers and coaches have seen that." --David Wright Yesterday Chipper Jones lashed out in "shock" that David Wright won the Gold Glove: "When I find out [Wright won] I was speechless, for quite some time... Certainly the guys with the least amount of errors and best fielding percentage quite obviously didn't win it.... I wouldn't have been disappointed had someone like [Pedro] Feliz or [Aramis] Ramirez won it. I'm a little confused by the final tally, that's a head-scratcher for me." Chipper is just making trouble. Pedro Feliz is a utility player and while Aramis Ramirez had 10 fewer errors than David Wright, he also played in 40 less games and turned less double plays. David Wright makes a lot of great plays, some truly amazing dives, and I suspect that the number of games played (almost all of them), the depth of the plays, and contribution to his team were taken into consideration, subjective votes, rather than pure statistics. If pure statistics decided the Gold Glove and MVP, then it would be boring and done by a computer. Time for Chipper to Shut Up. Maybe he will name his second daughter Citi. Posted by Steve in New York.
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