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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
Not all Gold Gloves are created equal.
Check out their actual fielding stats:
Hernandez led the league in double plays turned 6x (the guy was doing 3-6-3 double plays),total zone runs at 1B 8x , assists at 1B 5x.
Mattingly led the league in double plays turned 2x, total zone runs as 1B 1x, assists at 1B zero times.
Please show me someone that thinks Mattingly was a better fielder than Hernandez.
Also note that Hernandez career OBP was much higher than Mattingly's and his OPS+ was slightly better too.
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OPS+ differs by 1 point. Hernandez played 17 seasons to Mattingly's injury plagued 14, of which you said only 4 seasons were peak performance. How did a guy who played 10 seasons of injury plagued baseball end up so close to a healthy Hernandez?
Because there's almost nothing that separates them, that's how. Except that Mattingly had to be hurt most of his career to end up so close to Hernandez.
And as long as you want to keep hanging onto gold gloves, during their contemporary careers, Mattingly won the AL gold glove every single season Hernandez won the NL gold glove (besides 1984, but then Keith didn't win one in 1989), making him Hernandez's direct counterpart