Posted by edsortails on 12/6/2017 5:10:00 PM (view original):
He can DH and still win a gold glove at 1B.......the man can do anything.
Ha! I posted this in the SLB forum two years ago (September 2015):
I was just reading my favorite bathroom book, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001 edition), and opened it at random to the entry on Rafael Palmeiro. James writes about the controversy surrounding Palmeiro's being awarded a Gold Glove in 1999 despite playing only 28 games at first base:
"The Gold Glove is decided by what could be called an unconstrained plurality, meaning: 1) A voter can vote for anybody. 2) If the top vote-getter gets 15% of the vote, he wins, the same as if he had received 80%. A voting structure like this is an open invitation to an eccentric outcome. If the United States were to use a system like this to elect the President, the absolutely certain result would be that someone like David Duke, __________ or Warren Beatty would be elected President. If you can win an election with 15% of the vote, sooner or later somebody will. An unconstrained plurality vote gives an opening to someone or something who has a strong appeal to a limited number of people."
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