November 5, 200322 yr 11/05/2003 5:00 PM ET Gold Cards take credit in NL St. Louis boasts four Gold Glove winners By Jim Molony / MLB.com Mike Hampton's first Gold Glove ended Greg Maddux's 13-season run in the NL. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Four St. Louis Cardinals made the Rawlings Gold Glove Award team for the second consecutive year, but another familiar repeat winner didn't win the coveted trophy this time. St. Louis, which last year became the first NL team since the 1993 San Francisco Giants to have four Gold Glove winners, did it again this year as outfielder Jim Edmonds, third baseman Scott Rolen, shortstop Edgar Renteria and catcher Mike Matheny were honored. Edmonds, Rolen and Renteria, along with second baseman Fernando Vina, were winners last year. Matheny, who also won in 2000, picked up his second Gold Glove. Also making the team were Atlanta pitcher Mike Hampton and outfielder Andruw Jones, Florida first baseman Derrek Lee and second baseman Luis Castillo and San Francisco outfielder Jose Cruz Jr. Hampton, Lee, Castillo and Cruz are first-time winners. Hampton succeeds his teammate Maddux, a fixture on the Gold Glove team who had won the award for a pitcher 13 consecutive years or every season since Ron Darling won it as a member of the New York Mets in 1989. 2003 Gold Glove winners AMERICAN LEAGUE C Bengie Molina, ANA 1B John Olerud, SEA 2B Bret Boone, SEA 3B Eric Chavez, OAK SS Alex Rodriguez, TEX OF Ichiro Suzuki, SEA OF Mike Cameron, SEA OF Torii Hunter, MIN P Mike Mussina, NYY NATIONAL LEAGUE GOLD GLOVE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY, NOV 5. Rolen has won four consecutive NL Gold Gloves at third base, the most consecutively since Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia won nine in a row during 1976-84. Rolen has won the honor five of the last six seasons. Edmonds has won four consecutive Gold Gloves since joining St. Louis and six overall counting two he won while with the Angels (1997 and 1998). Jones has won the award six consecutive years, the longest string by an NL outfielder since Andre Dawson won six in a row 1980-85 for Montreal. Lee, whose sterling fielding helped lead the Marlins to the World Series title, beat out Todd Helton of Colorado, the winner the last two years, for first base honors. The measure of fielding excellence since 1957, the Rawlings Gold Glove Award is presented annually to 18 players, one for each position, in both the National and American Leagues. These outstanding players are selected as the best fielding players at their respective positions by Major League coaches and managers prior to the conclusion of the regular season. Managers and coaches may not select players from their own club and only vote for players in their own league. Jim Molony is a writer for MLB.com based in Houston. This story was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its clubs.
November 5, 200322 yr JT gets snubbed again? Maybe he's getting snubbed for a reason. Lee has been getting snubbed his entire career.
November 5, 200322 yr why would you want Reggie Sanders on your team? Cheap, productive... Why ask such a question in a thread that has nothing to do with this subject?
November 6, 200322 yr JT gets snubbed again? Maybe he's getting snubbed for a reason. Lee has been getting snubbed his entire career. I was surprised to hear Derrek beat out Toddboy!!! JT will never win anything as long as he's in a Giants uni...he has too much competition from a Blake Street Bomber (Helton). I hear JT's option was declined by the Giants though...
November 6, 200322 yr Author JT will be back, hopefully. The Giants just didn't wanna pay him 6 mil, for good reason.
November 16, 200322 yr he's won 6- 2 with the Angels, 4 with the Giants so you complaining that he gets "snubbed again"?.......
November 16, 200322 yr Author he did get snubbed in 02. 01 and 03 he missed too much time due to injury but he should've won in 02.
November 16, 200322 yr he did get snubbed in 02. 01 and 03 he missed too much time due to injury but he should've won in 02. Okay....so he's won 6 TIMES and you're complaining because he got "snubbed" twice? Sorry, not going to get sympathy from me.
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