Sunday Best–September 6th, 2009
The best defensive players at each position in each league according to the excellent series Diggin’ in the Defensive Dirt by Brian Joseph at Baseball Daily Digest. (Brian did not cover pitchers, so I made my own all-time selections to fill out the pages.)
| National | American | |
| C | Yadier Molina | Gerald Laird |
| 1B | Casey Kotchman | Paul Konerko |
| 2B | Craig Counsell | Ian Kinsler |
| 3B | Andy LaRoche | Joe Crede |
| SS | Jack Wilson | Marco Scutaro |
| LF | Seth Smith | David DeJesus |
| CF | Matt Kemp | Franklin Gutierrez |
| RF | Randy Winn | Nelson Cruz |
I need to grab a DeJesus from Sportlots this week.
The Week’s Best
The best baseball and baseball card blog articles of the week (as voted on by a panel of one):
Night Owl appreciates Nomo cardboard.
Dayf gives a brief review of 2009 SPx.
Mario puts Icons baseball and football side by side.
Dayf gets all excited about some beat-up old card.
Thingpen shows us Larry Walker when he was yet a spry lad.
2008 A&G Card-scape breaks Adam Jones’ ankle, and gets a smeared auto for karma.
Night Owl eschews Reggie for a surprise entry into the Badass Club.
Night Owl bemoans the marriage of a certain Dodgers fan.
| C | Yadier Molina | Gerald Laird |
| 1B | Casey Kotchman | Paul Konerko |
| 2B | Craig Counsell | Ian Kinsler |
| 3B | Andy LaRoche | Joe Crede |
| SS | Jack Wilson | Marco Scutaro |
| LF | Seth Smith | David DeJesus |
| CF | Matt Kemp | Franklin Gutierrez |
| RF | Randy Winn | Nelson Cruz |
I love your summary of my post. It made my morning. (o:
Hey, for some reason I can’t find your email address anywhere. Can you shoot me an email so I can setup the 80s pile details with you? Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks!
=Greg