Gold Glove Winners

MLB announced the Rawlings Gold Glove winners today, and it included Los Angeles Angels SS Orlando Cabrera.

Here is the complete list of the winners:
AL
P Johan Santana
C Ivan Rodriguez
1B Kevin Youkilis
2B Placido Polanco
SS Orlando Cabrera
3B Adrian Beltre
OF Torii Hunter
Grady Sizemore
Ichiro Suzuki

NL
P Greg Maddux
C Russell Martin
1B Derrek Lee
2B Orlando Hudson
SS Jimmy Rollins
3B David Wright
OF Carlos Beltran
Andruw Jones
Aaron Rowand*
Jeff Francoeur*
(*Tied in outfield voting)

For Maddux, it was his record-setting 17th Gold Glove award in his stellar career.

I am glad Cabrera got the recognition for the second time in his career. Playing in the AL, voters tend to go with Derek Jeter even though Cabrera puts up better fielding percentage numbers. The voters seem to be in love with the "highlight" plays rather than the consistency.

Now if we could only get a re-vote for the 2007 MLB all-star game... OC deserved to play in the Midsummer Classic this past season.

Tim McCarver is heard to be locked in his own room with Jason Varitek's picture in his arms. Damn, I could not keep count of the times that I wanted to shoot myself because of McCarver gushing about Varitek during the playoff coverage on Fox.