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Old 11-12-2021, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by clydepepper View Post
The gold glove awards became irrelevant in 1999 when palmeiro got it for playing 28 games at first base.


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I think it's actually shifted the opposite way, now. It actually values defense, or at least attempts to, by pointing to a lot of the newer defensive metrics. Though I do agree that by the late 90's/early 2000's it became a popularity award. Derek Jeter, certainly did not deserve to win five of them (or is it six, I can't remember)
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