Dustin Pedroia, the diminutive second baseman of the Boston Red Sox, notched his first Gold Glove Award today. It was the only Gold Glove a Red Sox player won, a year after Kevin Youkilis took home the hardware.
His closest competition was Mark Ellis of Oakland, and it was basically a dead heat between them. I’m guessing Pedey’s higher stature (in terms of name recognition, not height!) got him the award.
The other winners:
C Joe Mauer
1B Carlos Pena
3B Adrian Beltre
SS Michael Young
OF Torii Hunter
OF Ichiro Suzuki
OF Grady Sizemore
P Mike Mussina
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Dustin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a year. The Fenway diamond has GG at 1st, 2nd, 3rd, C., and a mid-season rookie with zero errors at SS. Plus zero errors from Ells in LF, CF, RF. Not too shabby. Our defensive weaknesses, then, are JDrew and JBay, who play to GG standards.
Add a couple of legitimate MVP and Cy Young candidates, and this team might even make it to the post-season sometime. Theo must be feeling pretty darned good about the hot-stove season.