ST. LOUIS -- As he settled into his Hawaiian home last offseason, it gnawed at Kolten Wong that he had once again failed to attract enough attention to be a National League Gold Glove Award finalist at second base. The supposed slight spurred him to come back even better.
"I felt like I should be on that list," Wong said. "Coming into this year, it definitely was something I had in the back of my head, knowing that last year I didn't even get looked at. I wanted to make a statement this year."
To overlook him now would be a gross oversight, as Wong has, based on just about every defensive metric, been the gold standard at his position this year.