2013 Gold Glove winners?

For what it's worth, here are the 2013 Fielding Bible winners:

http://www.fieldingbible.com/the-winners.asp

Bill

American League

C: Salvador Perez (Royals)
1B: Eric Hosmer (Royals)
2B: Dustin Pedroia (Red Sox)
3B: Manny Machado (Orioles)
SS: J.J. Hardy (Orioles)
LF: Alex Gordon (Royals)
CF: Adam Jones (Orioles)
RF: Shane Victorino (Red Sox)
P: R.A. Dickey (Blue Jays)

National League

C: Yadier Molina (Cardinals)
1B: Paul Goldschmidt (Diamondbacks)
2B: Brandon Phillips (Reds)
3B: Nolan Arenado (Rockies)
SS: Andrelton Simmons (Braves)
LF: Carlos Gonzalez (Rockies)
CF: Carlos Gomez (Brewers)
RF: Gerardo Parra (Diamondbacks)
P: Adam Wainwright (Cardinals)

Gold Gloves are not awarded because a guy has a great season based on some artificial statistic. You need to build a reputation first.

explain Simmons

Gold Gloves are not awarded because a guy has a great season based on some artificial statistic. You need to build a reputation first.

explain Simmons

he had developed a reputation from the start. Simmons started as a defensive whiz. he was going to win even if a Starlin castro had better stats.

http://www.talkingchop.com/2012/5/31/30 ... on-simmons

"At worst, Simmons can develop into a Rey Ordonez like player, who wins Gold Glove after Gold Glove but looks atrocious at the plate. His defense will always make him valuable asset, and if his bat can be remotely league average he'll be an every day Major League shortstop for 15 seasons"

Watch Simmons play for a week and no explanation is necessary -- Remember Ozzie?? This guy is just as good, whether he will be as good for as many years is the question.

all true

but he did not have to "earn his gold glove stripes"