From the ESPN Wire

Jerry Crasnick offers 1,300 words explaining why Adam Everett is a swell fielder.

No argument from me on his fielding -- Everett certainly can flash the leather.

But how many runs do you have to save on defense in order to balance out the runs you cost your team beacause your career numbers are .250/.303/.363? Baseball Reference.com lists the third-most similar player to Everett as Brad Ausmus...that ain't good...

In other news, Dr. Phil types a remarkably snark-free column about how the Cubs might not suck after all.

If a guy from Chicago writes something positive about the Cubs while moonlighting with a Connecticut outfit, is he still guilty of having the mythical Chicago media bias?

If It's Up for Grabs, He'd Probably Drop It

Jim has expressed his love for MLB Mosaic. But I'm a man who takes pleasure in simpler things, and am here to express my love for MLB Gameday Audio. Baseball on the radio is one of God's gifts to the human race (it ranks right up there with the Beatles, peanut butter, Jane Austen, and, of course, baseball itself).

Anyway...I'm listening to the Yankee's/A's game on the Oakland station, and one of the announcers mentioned that Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter had four errors on the season already, and thus this year's Gold Glove award is "up for grabs."

Intrigued, I went to ESPN this morning to check the field stats. Derek must have made a boo-boo last night, because it lists him with five errors (most among the 12 AL shortstops ESPN has listed as "qualified").

Jeter also ranks eleventh in fielding percentage, tenth in zone rating, and eighth in range factor.

I seem to recall that last year, Yankee Fan and Baseball Pundit were all over Alex Rodriguez for his allegedly poor fielding. I'm sure that these folks wouldn't want to hold a double standard, and will shower Jeter with boos as soon as possible.

He’s in Good Hands

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rawlings’ Gold Glove Award, the company is sponsoring a fan ballot to determine the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team.

You can cast your vote here. For some reason, Derek Jeter is a nominee at shortstop…