DENVER (DP) - Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki is amazingly graceful in the middle of the diamond. In fact, he's more graceful than you might think.
He does, after all, play with a chip on his shoulder.
Tulowitzki tonight won his second straight Rawlings Gold Glove Award, providing him with some pocket change (a $25,000 bonus) and a vast fortune in personal validation.
At 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds, Tulowitzki was viewed by some major league clubs as a third baseman in the weeks preceding the 2005 draft. His response? I'm a shortstop. And now he's a two-time Gold Glove winner at the position.
Tulowitzki beat out the other finalists, Pittsburgh's Ronny Cedeno and Atlanta's Alex Gonzalez, after a 2011 season in which he established career highs in fielding percentage (.991) and fewest errors (6). He also went 59 consecutive games, a span of 509 1/3 innings from late June to early September, without an error, another career best.
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