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Article: Deconstructing the Midas touch: Gold Glove Award Voting, 1965-2004.
- Article from:
- The Baseball Research Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Gold Glove Awards, first presented in 1957, are given annually to the best defensive players at each position in each league. Guidelines for Gold Glove Award voting now state that coaches and managers may vote for players in their league, but not for players on their own team. The guidelines do not suggest what characteristics the coaches and managers should consider in making their selections.
Using the non-strike player-seasons since 1965, we used regression models to predict award recipients by position based on plausible predictive variables, including fielding, offense, and reputation. The best-fitting models showed that defensive skills and having previously ...