Remeber when we used to complain that Adam never got a Gold Glove? Well, apparently somebody agrees, and called him the best shortshop of the decade. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=4761290 SS -- Adam Everett Everett has never started 150 games in a season. He's started more than 120 games in a season just twice. That's the best explanation for Everett's failure to win even a single Gold Glove: The voters prefer every-day players. And they particularly like every-day players who can hit at least a little. That's just not Adam Everett. But despite his general lack of playing time, he has easily saved more runs in this decade than any other shortstop: 87 runs, to be (approximately) precise, and 18 runs per 150 games. Everett turns 33 this winter, and he's not the fielder he once was. But for five or six years, there simply wasn't a shortstop who could make more plays than Adam Everett.
Ground ball to second...they won't be able to get two or are they and THEY DID! OH MAN! WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE PLAY BY BRUNTLETT AND EVERETT! THE ASTROS LEAD THIS SERIES THREE GAMES TO ONE! —Brennaman on the Astros turning the game-ending double play in Game 4
Blackhole in the 8th spot but DAM good defensive SS until Caballo ran his leg over. The double play in game 4 still ranks up there with Kent's, Burke's and Brad's HRs in the playoffs.
Yea I remember that dp. Garner took Biggio out at the top of the 9th and put Eric Brunlet in. Brunlet did a hell of a job to get the dp started. I think it was Mabry batting at the time.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_.../16/slnmlb-houmlb-1&cid=mlb&fid=mlb_tp350&v=2 Just for you guys. Some quick hands.
i was there that day...just amazing. enjoyed it with my then 5 year old. such a great memory. i still wear my Astros AE tshirt with pride.
Still gives me chills. Adam Everett is the best defensive shortstop I've ever seen. He didn't get the recognition for 2 reasons...he couldn't hit to save his life and he didn't make the flashy plays because he didn't have to. No one read where the ball was going to go better than AE. He didn't have to dive to make plays because he was already there. CaseyH said Oswalt, Pettitte, and Clemens owe him. So do Jeff Kent and Craig Biggio. I've never seen a ss make more plays on the 2nd base side WITHOUT DIVING. He covered their collective asses more than anyone they ever played with.
God I love going back and watching those games from 2005. I always get chills watching those epic games. I can't wait until Minute Maid is packed with a full house in the playoffs again. Hard to find a better sports atmosphere than that.
Yeah, Adam could pick it with the best. But...if he hadn't had the broken wrist...He was just catching up to MLB pitching. Most folks don't even understand the kind of talent he possessed.
The 2003-2004 version of Adam Everett would be nice. He was a great defensive player with adequate offensive skill. 2004 he hit .273/.317/.385. Compare that to Tejada's first year in Houston .283/.314/.415.
Leroy and Plowman -- I gotta contribute something to this forum just so I can "rep" posts like that. Somebody rep those posts!
He made fielding SS a clinic. Watching other teams field balls up the middle or when Tejada came here is annoying because I fully expected the ball to be caught.
The article explains why AE never won gold gloves meh. He was the best defensive ss in all of MLB for the majority of this decade. So it is strange that he couldn't even pull out one GG in the National League.
