Tag: Jacoby Ellsbury

No MVP for Jacoby

I want to be happy for Justin Verlander.  If I’m being honest, my first reaction to the news that he won MVP was “They chose a pitcher!!!” with much joy behind it.  So I will say that, generally speaking, I’m…

More Awards for the Red Sox

Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez have another piece of hardware to display with their 2011 Gold Gloves as they, along with David Ortiz, received the American League Silver Slugger Award for their respective positions. This means Ellsbury and Gonzalez have…

Red Sox happenings

We have Gold Gloves! Jacoby Ellsbury won his first, Dustin Pedroia his second and Adrian Gonzalez his third.  Let us rejoice in meaningless awards (with all due respect to our three winners who genuinely did good enough glove work to…

Three Red Sox players win Gold Gloves

The Boston Red Sox haven’t had multiple Gold Glove winners since 1990 but this year they have three. Centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and second baseman Dustin Pedroia all were awarded the Rawlings Gold Glove Award last night…