2013 MLB Gold Glove Winners

That time of year has arrived. With the Major League Baseball post season starting to come to a close, the hardware starts getting handed out. Of course we have the big awards of the Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and MVP. Those will be given out within the next week or two. That's not the only awards to be given out. The first bit of hardware for the 2013 season has been handed out in the form of the Gold Glove awards. Now what we are going to do here is, we are going to list the winners for both leagues. After that we will let the debate begin as to who was worthy, in our view, of winning the award this season.

So without further ado, here are your 2013 Gold Glove Award Winners!

American League
P R.A. Dickey Toronto (1st)
C Salvador Perez Kansas City (1st)
1B Eric Hosmer Kansas City (1st)
2B Dustin Pedroia Boston (3rd)
3B Manny Machado Baltimore (1st)
SS J.J. Hardy Baltimore (2nd)
LF Alex Gordon Kansas City (3rd)
CF Adam Jones Baltimore (3rd)
RF Shane Victorino Boston (4th)

National League
P Adam Wainwright St. Louis (2nd)
C Yadier Molina St. Louis (6th)
1B Paul Goldschmidt Ariona (1st)
2B Brandon Phillips Cincinnati (4th)
3B Nolan Arenado Colorado (1st)
SS Andrelton Simmons Atlanta (1st)
LF Carlos Gonzalez Colorado (3rd)
CF Carlos Gomez Milwaukee (1st)
RF Gerardo Parra Arizona (2nd)

So here's my thoughts and observations on the awards. With the American League, there were a few things I thought didn't go right. How Eric Hosmer won at 1st base over James Loney is a little puzzling. Between the two, Lowney, I felt, had a better year, slightly, defensively than Hosmer did. And how Adam Jones beat out Jacoby Ellsbury for the award in center field is beyond me. Don't get me wrong, Jones is a good center fielder, but Ellsbury is far and away a better center fielder defensively. Those were the only two problems I had with the AL winners, which had Baltimore and Kansas City clean up.

Now with the National League. Yadier Molina became the fifth catcher to win at least six Gold Gloves, joining Ivan Rodriguez (13), Johnny Bench (10), Bob Boone (seven) and Jim Sundberg (six). So yeah, he really is that good. Russel Martin of the Pirates was the only catcher in the league who can come close, and even he was a distance back in my book. The pick for the winner at 3rd base surprised me a little bit.n Both David Wright and Juan Uribe had good years. With Wright, I think he had a down year by his standards, plus missing time with injuries hurt his chances to win the award. Arenado just out played Uribe, but not by much as far as I could tell. Brandon Phillips took the award again at 2nd base, but Darwin Barney of the Cubs played incredible, and made this decision tougher than most thought it would have been. How Gomez beat out Andrew McCutchen in center field was a bit of a surprise to me. Otherwise the voters I feel got the awards right.