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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Longo, Kotchman, Fuld nominated for Gold Gloves

Posted Nov 1, 2011 by Roger Mooney

Updated Nov 1, 2011 at 03:57 PM

The Legend of Sam Fuld began on April 10 with this catch against the White Sox in Chicago.

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The Rays will learn tonight if their streak of Gold Glove winners extends to four seasons when the Rawlings Gold Glove winners are announced at 10 p.m. on ESPN2.

Nominated are first baseman Casey Kotchman, third baseman Evan Longoria and left fielder Sam Fuld.

Longoria has won a Gold Glove in each of the last two seasons. His .962 fielding percentage this season, his lowest since joining the Rays in 2008, ranked third among AL third baseman behind Kevin Youkilis (.967) and Adrian Beltre (.965), the other two players nominated at that position.

Here is a highlight of what Rays have come to expect from Longoria http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19065477

Kotchman, who statistically is the best fielding first baseman in major league history with a career .998 fielding percentage, led all major league first baseman this season with a .998 fielding percentage. It was the fourth straight season in which he has accomplished that feat, though he has never won a Gold Glove.

Here is a clip of Kotchman’s range and defensive ability: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19833275

Adrian Gonzalez and Mark Teixeira are the other finalists at first base.

Fuld had a .982 fielding percentage in left field and was perfect during his limited time in center and right fields. While not among the AL outfielders in fielding percentage, Fuld made a number of highlight catches at all three spots, including this one against the White Sox during the first week of the season http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13627711

Fuld is nominated in left field along with Brett Gardner and Alex Gordon. Gordon led all AL left fielders with a .991 fielding percentage. Gardner was third at .987.

Past Rays Gold Glove Award winners
2008 Carlos Peña, 1 B
2009 Evan Longoria 3B
2010 Carl Crawford LF, Longoria 3B