BJ Upton is a Better Fielder Than Jacoby Ellsbury

I'm watching the Rays-Red Sox game on ESPN and Jacoby Ellsbury takes away a sure triple from BJ Upton on a line drive to left center. The next thing I hear Rick Sutcliffe say is "Jacoby Ellsbury should win a gold glove this year."

This is not true, because he was not even the best center fielder in the game he was playing in today.

Stats

Lets look at some stats that compare the two:

Errors/Fld %/ Assists/ Range/ Zone Factor

Ellsbury: 2/.993/3/7th/2nd

Upton: 2/ .994/6/5th/4th

Now I'm not sure what Zone Factor is (sabermetric people help me out because I don't understand them) but in the other four stats, Upton is better.

Upton plays the shallowest center field in the game and almost nothing gets behind him. He doesn't make many diving catches, but he's so fast he doesn't need to. He glides to the ball like an angel (that was for humor). 

Assists have to be a factor in a gold glove. We all know who is going to win the other gold gloves, Ichiro Suzuki and Torii Hunter. Both of these players, especially Ichiro, have good arms.

Ellsbury has the WEAKEST arm out there besides maybe Juan Pierre, but Pierre didn't get any love all of those years in Colorado, why should Ellsbury? Because he is in Boston, duh!

Nobody runs on Upton anymore. He has a CANNON; probably the best arm in the outfield. Everybody knows that he makes perfect throws to home plate, and yet he still has double the amount of assists Ellsbury does. 

But Ellsbury has Web Gems!

Again, this is ESPN propaganda.

While Ellsbury has made some nice plays, "nice catches" should not put him over the top of Upton who has double the assists.

Upton makes good catches, like this one that aren't sliding or diving catches, but ridiculous Jim Edmonds like catches. They are especially tough since he plays such a short center field.

If Francona trusted Ellsbury as much as Maddon trusts Upton, Ellsbury would be playing as shallow as Upton.

I don't think Upton will win the Gold Glove, I HOPE Carl Crawford wins it. Crawford deserves it with only 4 errors and many great plays, let's not forget the All-Star game. However, overall I think Upton has played a better outfield than Crawford.

If the voters are going to go off of those standards and not look at the stats, Crawford dwarfs Ellsbury (no pun intended), but because neither Upton nor Crawford wear a Boston jersey, they don't get near the recognition they deserve.