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Admittedly some things have gone wrong in some awards, Palemeiro was one of course (but he did play one heck of a first base for those 28 games), however here is a quote from Sports Illustrated:
"The old standby, fielding percentage, is inadequate. It hurts players with good range, who often make errors on balls that slower fielders would not reach. Range factor (putouts plus assists) and Zone Rating (a nebulous STATS, Inc. concoction) can be compromised by luck, the type of pitching staff a team has (flyball vs. groundball) and the ballpark it plays in. Sabermetricians have come up with something you need an aerospace engineering degree to understand, Ultimate Zone Rating, which sounded like a good idea until it told us Darin Erstad was the best player in the history of the world."
Point being that the numbers, no matter what method you come up with, by themselves do not tell the whole story.
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