Braun nominated for Gold Glove (Gerardo Parra wins it for NL LF)

[Nottso]

Thanks, Baldkin!

[jjfanec]

There are a couple posters on this board who are convinced Braun is a terrible fielder so I would love to see their reaction if he wins.

[jason21nl]

He fields the ball really well towards the line but I think he struggles at balls to his left or in the gap. The fact that he fast helps him make up for the balls he misjudges. He has an awkward throwing motion but has a fairly strong arm and is accurate throwing to 2nd but throwing home is hit or miss. Over all I think he is a decent to good outfielder.

[Warning Track Power]

If this is indeed a Gold Glove for a LF Braun is a fine choice; obviously there are a ton of other OF that would be more deserving if the gold glove was for OF.. Braun is a better fielder than Holliday; don't know about Parra. Braun will probably get it simply for his offensive season.

Parra is phenomenal. Everytime I watched the D'Backs play I was absolutely enthralled by watching his defense. It's like watching Gomez in CF. He's that good. If Braun wasn't a Brewer, I would be rooting hard for Parra and If Parra gets it, I will not be upset in the least.

 

 

[endaround]

There are a couple posters on this board who are convinced Braun is a terrible fielder so I would love to see their reaction if he wins.

That he'll be one in a long line of terrible fielders who have won a gold glove. Of the three listed, he would be third but voters will remember Holliday's miscue last year and Parra can't hit like the other two soI expect Braun to get it at this point.. The NL as a whole has pretty terrible LFers outside of Parra and other players who are pretty good like Prado only play there part time.

[BREWCREW5]

The bleacher report has the AL and NL rankings and they think Braun should win it.

[Ennder]

I watched the ESPN baseball tonight gold glove awards and just got mad as I don't think a single good fielder won an award outside of C as far as I could tell.

[hawing]

So - it's Gerardo Parra. Oh well.

[Oldcity]

Ha. They actually picked the right one.

[Ennder]

Yeah Parra wasn't a bad pick, most of the picks are just horrible though.

[TooLiveBrew]

Glad to see Parra win it. Guys like him (read: guys that aren't established vets that can hit) just never seem to win the GGs. He's certainly deserving; that's one amazing outfield in Arizona.

[umphrey]

Well this pretty much locks up MVP for Matt Kemp

[BREWCREW5]

Well this pretty much locks up MVP for Matt Kemp

Huh? MVP was voted on before the season ended. It has nothing to do with who Rawlings gives their gold gloves to.

[RightFieldCoder]

The Gold Gloves are voted on by the managers. MVP is voted on by the BBWAA. Two different set of voters that can come up with two drastically different winners.

[Thurston Fluff]

That he'll be one in a long line of terrible fielders who have won a gold glove.

 

The point he was making is Braun is not a terrible left fielder like some have said. He's actually above average for left fielders. You simply misjudged how good he is or how bad the rest of the league is in left. Left and first are where teams hide their good hitting, bad fielding players so it shouldn't shock anyone that, given his tools, Braun is above average there.

 

Of the three listed, he would be third but voters will remember Holliday's miscue last year

 

You don't think Braun having comparable perhaps a little bit better defensive stats could have something to do with why he might be chosen ahead of Holliday?

[umphrey]

Just saying, if nationally people think Kemp is an all world defender, they probably think he's the MVP

[jjfanec]

There are a couple posters on this board who are convinced Braun is a terrible fielder so I would love to see their reaction if he wins.

That he'll be one in a long line of terrible fielders who have won a gold glove. Of the three listed, he would be third but voters will remember Holliday's miscue last year and Parra can't hit like the other two soI expect Braun to get it at this point.. The NL as a whole has pretty terrible LFers outside of Parra and other players who are pretty good like Prado only play there part time.

He is not a terrible defender. He may have been but he is not anymore. With the MVP talk most scouts/analysts said he was average to above average. They said Fielder was terrible though. They actually said defense and base-running were the biggest edges Braun had over Fielder.

You think he is terrible and that is your call but there are plenty here on this board that would say he is average to better. I will agree that he didnt deserve the Gold Glove but disagree that he is a terrible fielder

 

[CheezWizHed]

Who is the better OF between Braun and Hart?

[fondybrewfan]

Who is the better OF between Braun and Hart?

IMO Braun and it really isn't all that close. Hart really seemed to regress this year.

 

 

[Warning Track Power]

Who is the better OF between Braun and Hart?

Hart did seem to really regress for a guy who was only in his age 29 season. He looked slow, tentative and generally like a liability in RF. Really surprising to me given that he has never had a major injury, should still be in his prime and was the fastest guy on the team just two years ago.

 

 

[TooLiveBrew]

Just saying, if nationally people think Kemp is an all world defender, they probably think he's the MVP

Then it's a good thing the two sets of voters are completely different http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif