Part III of a player-by-player review of Gold Glove award winners in Yankees history.
In the first two parts of this series we covered the first 15 Yankees to win a Gold Glove award. Some of those players absolutely deserved the honor while other winners made far less sense in hindsight. In general, there has been a common theme in Gold Glove award voting where players win the award after putting up gaudy offensive numbers, regardless of what they did in the field (see Rafael Palmeiro in 1999). As backwards as that thinking is, we'll see that the trend has continued in the conclusion of this series.