Munson League Gold Gloves

by Gary Altman

Being a relative newb to the OOTP Game (just over one year and ABL is the only league I’m in) the stats and information the game offers is second to none. I’m still finding new things about the game and then when you delve a little bit deeper more information is waiting for you there as well.

One such thing is the Gold Glove Awards. When looking over the previous winners there were some very intriguing things.


Now in just two seasons, quite the sample size I might add, we’ve had just 18 Gold Glove winners in the Thurman Munson League. Just off the cuff I found 5 interesting things about the awards given out so far. I would venture to say that offense is really not used as a criteria in the awarding of Gold Gloves, which is in stark contrast to real life MLB (think back to Rafael Palmeiro winning a Gold Glove at 1B for the Texas Rangers when he played just 18 games at first base!).

Tidbits:

Eric Black

• The TML has only one player who has won the Gold Glove Award twice, Mile High’s center-fielder Eric Black, who appears to be on pace to win the award for a third straight year.
• The pitchers' Gold Glove has been owned by the San Francisco Earthquakes. Two seasons in a row the Gold Glove Award has made its way to the Bay Area.
• Las Vegas and Eureka, the TML representatives to the World Series the last two seasons, have not had a Gold Glove winner. This could be used in the TML to make an argument that defense is an overrated commodity. Just looking at the team with the most Gold Gloves, the Mile High Mustangs, who have won 5 awards, they sport just a .500 record over the first two seasons (162-162) and finished second and third in their division the last two seasons.
• The 2012 Gold Glove Winner for the Catcher Position is UNKNOWN. This is kinda bizarre and we thought this only applied to our A-Ball Level’s having the “Unknown” players. I’m sure somewhere we can find this information out on who won the award in 2012.
• Three Gold Glove Winners are now toiling their skills in AAA, including Mile High’s 2013 winner, catcher Len “Brewski” Brewer.

Next up will be the Roberto Clemente League Gold Glove Winners.

Here are the Thurman Munson League Gold Glove Winners, broken down by team and where they are now:

Gold Gloves by Teams

Mile High (5)
2012  2B  Jeff Wade (MIL – ABL)
2012  LF  Danny Hardy (MIL – AAA)
2012  CF  Eric Black (MIL – ABL)
2013  CF  Eric Black (MIL – ABL)
2013   C  Len Brewer (MIL – AAA)

Georgia (4)
2012  3B  Andy Miller (GEO – ABL)
2012  RF  Ed Hill (GEO – ABL)
2013  1B  Tommy McCauley (GEO – ABL)
2013  2B  Steve O’Donnell (GEO – ABL)

Ray Larson

San Francisco (3)
2012   P  Brad Anderson (SFE - ABL)
2013   P  Ray Larson (SFE - ABL)
2013  LF  John Ross (SFE – ABL)

Maple (2)
2012  1B  Don Strickland (MAP – AAA)
2013  3B  Cale Hines (MAP – ABL)

Boston (1)
2012  SS  Ed White (BOS – ABL)

South Carolina (1)
2013  SS  Ángelo Casas (SOU – ABL)

Jersey (1)
2013  RF  Stan Cheslin (JER – ABL)