Serious Baseball American League "Great Gloves"

After looking at the 2004 recipients of the American League Gold Glove awards, and disagreeing with many of them, I decided to award "Great Gloves."

"Great Gloves" are essentially the same as the Gold Gloves, except that the winners are picked by me. Winners were chosen based on their fielding statistics.

I will list the AL Gold Glove winner, and his fielding statistics, directly above the Serious Baseball "Great Glove" winner and his statistics, by position, so you can compare the two recipients.

In some cases, the AL Gold Glove winner will be the same as the SB (Serious Baseball) "Great Glove" winner.

Here are the winners:
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Statistic Glossary:

Fielding Percentage: Total number of errors, divided by Total Chances (TC)

TC: Total Chances

E: Errors

SB: Stolen Bases against Catchers

CS: Runners caught stealing against catchers

TC/E: How many chances, on average, went by before that player made an error (formula is same as title-TC/E).......Very useful in prorating a players error total when comparing players with closes TC totals. Will be written as, ie:1/264, which would mean that player made one error every 264 chances.
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Catcher:
AL Gold Glove Winnner: Ivan Rodriguez (DET)- .987 Fldg %, 833 TC, 11 E, 40 SB, 19 CS, 3 PB

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Ivan Rodriguez (DET)- SAME AS ABOVE

First Base:
AL Gold Glove Winner: Darin Erstad (ANA)- .996 Fldg %, 1056 TC, 4 E, 1/264 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: John Olerud (SEA/NYY)- .998 Fldg %, 994 TC, 2 E, 1/497 TC/E

Second Base:
AL Gold Glove Winner: Bret Boone (SEA)- .978 Fldg %, 644 TC, 14 E, 1/46 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Brian Roberts (BAL)- .988 Fldg %, 669 TC, 8 E, 1/83.62 TC/E

Third Base:
AL Gold Glove Winner: Eric Chavez (OAK)- .968 Fldg %, 402 TC, 13 E, 1/30.92 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Eric Hinske (TOR)- .978 Fldg %, 357 TC, 8 E, 1/44.62 TC/E

Shortstop
AL Gold Glove Winner: Derek Jeter (NYY)- .981 Fldg %, 678 TC, 13 E, 1/52.15 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Cristian Guzman (MIN)- .983 Fldg %, 683 TC, 12 E, 1/56.91 TC/E

Outfield
AL Gold Glove Winner: Ichiro Suzuki (SEA)- .992 Fldg %, 387 TC, 3 E, 1/129 TC/E
AL Gold Glove Winner: Torii Hunter(MIN)- .988 Fldg %, 320 TC, 4 E, 1/80 TC/E
AL Gold Glove Winner: Vernon Wells (TOR)- .997 Fldg %, 333 TC, 1 E, 1/333 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Carl Crawford (TB)- .994 Fldg %, 357 TC, 2 E, 1/178.5 TC/E
SB "Great Glove" Winner: Carlos Lee(CHA)- 1.000 Fldg %, 293 TC, 0 E, 0/293 TC/E
SB "Great Glove" Winner: Vernon Wells (TOR)- SAME AS ABOVE

Pitcher
AL Gold Glove Winner: Kenny Rogers (TEX)- .985 Fldg %, 65 TC, 1 E, 1/65 TC/E

SB "Great Glove" Winner: Kenny Rogers (TEX)- SAME AS ABOVE

Congratulations to all of the winners.

Even though there is a great chance the winners will never know that they have won a Serious Baseball "Great Glove" award, it is an honor to give them this award.

I believe the Serious Baseball "Great Glove" award winners are the players who should have won the AL Gold Glove awards; and I believe the listed statistics prove that point.

Thank you for reading.

Frank Bundy III

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to email me at frnkbndy@yahoo.com.