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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Gold Gloves - Here They Are
Message-ID: <518@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 09:14:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 09:14:38 1985
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>Here are the `84 Gold Glove winners.  Players with * by
>their name led the league in fielding at their position.
>Note the lack of *s!  Only 2!!!!!

Good thing, too!  Fielding percentage is a perverse measurement of
defensive performance: it rewards players with relatively good hands
and minimum range.  Gold Gloves tend to be awarded with an EMPHASIS
upon range; therefore, it is not surprising (and is desirable) that
there be a substantial difference between the group of fielding
"leaders" and the gold glovees.

If Tom could post the list of "fielding leaders", I'm confident that
the net consensus would be that the gold glovers are a substantially
superior group of defenders.

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david

Gold Glovers:

>1B K. Hernandez, E. Murray
>2B L. Whitaker, R. Sandberg*
>SS A. Trammell, O. Smith*
>3B B. Bell, M. Schmidt
>OF D. Evans, D. Murphey
>OF D. Winfield, B. Dernier
>OF D. Murphy, A. Dawson
>C  L. Parrish, T. Pena
>P  R. Guidry, J. Andujar

>Tom O`Connor
>ihuxw!tommyo