My busy schedule of late kept me from jumping on this story earlier, but when the Rawlings Gold Glove winners for 2005 were announced on Tuesday, there was a big surprise in the American League - the Twins' Torii Hunter, who missed the last two months of the season due to injury, won his fifth-straight award. Although there is no doubting Hunter's credentials - those get highlighted every night during the season on "SportsCenter" and "Baseball Tonight" - the award was mostly surprisingly because of the amount of the season that he missed, highlighting once again that sometimes reputation counts for more than anything else. Even so, Hunter isn't exactly ready to hand back the award, and we don't think he should either. Congratulations once again to Torii Hunter.

» Hunter's short season was golden [twinsbaseball.com]

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