................and still won the Gold Glove for Centerfielders. Way to many season awards are handed out nowadays based on reputation and past achievement.
Sure he is awesome in the field, but he barely played in 60% of the season! Especially when you have two very good candidates in Johnny Damon and Aaron Rowand, both of whose defense contributed to their teams making it to the playoffs. I'm biased towards Rowand because I watched him the most and saw him consistently rob batters of extra-bases, make phenomenal catches on balls in the gap, sacrifice his body by going into the wall time and time again, etc, but I'd rather have seen even Damon win it before someone who missed 2/5ths of the season.
