Kenny Rogers had 5 errors in 57 chances. It should have been either Jake Westbrook or Chien-Mien Wang at P. Both had more chances, more assists and fewer errors (1 each) in about the same # of innings. Kind of hard to think The Gambler's .912 fielding percentage is golden.
2 Wang and Westbrook are two of the most extreme ground ball pitchers in the majors, of course they had more chances, and thus more assists. I credit them with the fewer errors, but having seen them both play regularly, I think Rogers is definitely a better fielder than Wang. Wang helps himself, but Rogers could probably play third base if he had a better arm (wink).
Wang looks like he's not doing much when fielding but he's 6'3" and never seems to get flustered or unbalanced doing anything on the mound. I don't begrudge Rogers his Gold Glove but it makes me feel better about my Little League career. I think I had something like a .912 fielding percentage at age 12 as a catcher. Now I feel a lot better about those few throws into right field. I had RANGE and that makes all the difference.
Bob is right - I'm sure there was more time spend thinking about the relative merits of the fielding skills of AL pitchers in this thread than there was in the actual voting.
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Wang looks like he's not doing much when fielding but he's 6'3" and never seems to get flustered or unbalanced doing anything on the mound. I don't begrudge Rogers his Gold Glove but it makes me feel better about my Little League career. I think I had something like a .912 fielding percentage at age 12 as a catcher. Now I feel a lot better about those few throws into right field. I had RANGE and that makes all the difference.
Bob is right - I'm sure there was more time spend thinking about the relative merits of the fielding skills of AL pitchers in this thread than there was in the actual voting.
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