The Orioles took home some hardware from Tuesday night's Rawlings Gold Glove Award show, with catcher Matt Wieters and right fielder Nick Markakis both receiving the honor for the first time in their careers.
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November 02, 2011
We interrupt Steelers Hate Week to bring you some good news/bad news from the baseball team in town.
First, the good.
Last night, it was announced that two O’s – catcher Matt Wieters and right fielder Nick Markakis – won the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards at their respective positions. Wieters is the first Oriole catcher to ever win the honor, and Markakis finally gets...
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November 02, 2011
In a year where it seemed that so few things went right for the Baltimore Orioles, and so few players seemed to be able to grab the bull by the horns, perhaps last night the team got a bit of redemption. Catcher Matt Wieters and right fielder Nick Markakis were awarded their first ever Rawlings Gold Glove awards for their work in the field this past season. (J.J. Hardy was also nominated...
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November 01, 2011
Congratulations to Matt Wieters on winning a well deserved Gold Glove. The awards are obviously kinda dumb (Rafael Plameiro winning with only 28 games played at first, Derek Jeter having 5), but the certainly got it right in this case. Matt Klaassen from his recent Beyond the Box Score article:"The overall leader is the same guy who has been running away with it all season,...
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November 03, 2011
Despite another poor season for the Orioles, they did get some well-deserved national recognition as both Nick Markakis and Matt Wieters were selected as Rawlings’ Gold Glove winners. We all know the impressive job that Wieters did behind the plate, firmly establishing himself as of one best young catchers behind the plate. He was a defensive marvel behind the dish, stopping...
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November 02, 2011
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November 02, 2011
No Tigers won a gold glove this year despite the fact that one was very deserving and another you could have made a major argument for. Matt Wieters won at catcher and while I can live with that I do think Alex Avila has a great season behind the plate. WAR doesn’t really spell it [...]
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November 02, 2011
Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, who won his first Gold Glove Award on Tuesday, is recovering from a pelvic bone bruise that bothered him during the final weeks of last season.
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November 01, 2011
Baltimore's Nick Markakis was the American League's representative in right field on the Gold Glove Award team, ending a run of 10 consecutive defensive honors for the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki.
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