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Tulo, Helton miss out on Gold Gloves

Tracy Ringolsby, Rocky Mountain News

Published November 7, 2007 at midnight

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The Rockies like to talk about the "team effort" that resulted in their 2007 National League pennant.

Evidently, the rest of baseball agrees.

Though the Rockies set a major league record with their .989 fielding percentage, not one of their players was selected to the NL Gold Glove team announced Tuesday.

Troy Tulowitzki, who led major league shortstops in fielding percentage and total chances, lost out to Jimmy Rollins of Philadelphia. And Derrek Lee of the Cubs won his third Gold Glove at first base, finishing ahead of Todd Helton.

"Jimmy Rollins is a great player, but it is wrong that Troy Tulowitzki did not win the Gold Glove and Todd Helton would be overlooked at first base," Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said. "There is a reason we set a major league record for fielding, and those two were a big part of that."

Managers and coaches in each league vote for the Gold Glove winners.

It is the second year in a row a team has set the fielding record and been shut out in Gold Glove voting. Boston suffered the same fate in the American League last year. When Seattle set the record in 2003, it had four AL Gold Glove winners.

Tulowitzki committed 11 errors in 834 total chances, a .987 fielding percentage. Rollins had 11 errors, too, but he had only 717 total chances, 117 fewer than Tulowitzki.

Helton led NL first basemen with a .999 fielding percentage, committing two errors in 1,545 total chances. Lee finished fourth in the NL at .994, committing seven errors in 1,259 total chances.