We continue the Gold Glove analysis on MLB Monday today with an ongoing look at the best fielders of the “Decade of Excess” who did not win the hardware—but definitely could have. We started this in the 1950s, and we’re working our way through the years, just as we did with those overrated guys who didn’t deserve the hardware bestowed upon them. It’s always weird to think how things could have been different, right?

Editor’s Note: We only include those who never won a GG vote at any time in their respective careers, not individual seasons from those who won a Gold Glove at some point in their MLB lives.

Glenn Hubbard, 2B: We were surprised to see he was an All Star in 1983, but we already knew he retired after playing half the season with the Oakland Athletics in 1989. Yet we had no idea his 2.4 dWAR in 1985 went unrewarded by the GG voters. He never had a full season of negative defensive value in his career, while finished with a combined 8.5 dWAR over 12 years. It’s hard to imagine voters missing a guy this good.

Terry Kennedy, C: We see a lot of catchers on these lists, because so often in the past guys were in their for their defense alone. Anything they did with the bat was a plus. With 11.3 dWAR combined for his career, Kennedy posted 2.1 dWAR in 1985 without winning a Gold Glove. This concluded a three-year run that saw him post 4.0 dWAR, 6.5 oWAR, and a National League pennant. He was a four-time All Star, however.

Ron Oester, 2B: Not only did he post 2.1 dWAR in 1985, he also put up a career-best 2.1 oWAR that year as well. And it still wasn’t enough to get him the GG vote. Yet we know Hubbard above was also denied in this same season at the same position in the same league. This was Oester’s best season, by far, and it was his only one with more than 1.6 dWAR. His overall reputation wasn’t there in the first place, so we get this snub.

Rich Gedman, C: From 1984-1988, he compiled 7.3 dWAR without winning a Gold Glove. In 1985 alone, he put up a career-best 4.3 oWAR with 2.1 dWAR. And then in 1986 while his team was running away with the AL East Division, Gedman posted 2.2 dWAR. Seems weird he wouldn’t get the proper recognition, although we also must point out that it was his passed ball in the 1986 World Series that help cost Boston the title.

José Uribe, SS: The all-glove, no-bat label really applies here, as his 10-year career dWAR (8.9) is much higher than his career oWAR (5.8). That was the case, too, in 1986 when his 2.7 dWAR mark easily outdistanced his 0.6 oWAR. Maybe that cost him some GG votes, although this was a tough era for National League shortstops, too. From 1985-1989, he totaled 7.4 dWAR without winning a Gold Glove. That’s bad luck.

Dick Schofield, SS: His career 13.6 dWAR included four different seasons of 2.0-plus dWAR efforts. He never won a Gold Glove, either, as his bat was not super stellar. But, he did put up a career-high 3.0 oWAR in 1986 while playing for a division winner and posting 2.1 dWAR at the same time. Again, there was a lot of competition at the position during the 1980s, regardless of which league a guy played in. So there’s that, too.

Greg Gagne, SS: Another shortstop who played for a 1987 division winner while posting a high dWAR mark (2.7), he never won a GG vote despite his reputation as a slick fielder. What is worse?? This guy compiled 19.1 dWAR in his MLB tenure. That’s really impressive; we find it odd voters couldn’t manage to get him some hardware, although he did receive some MVP votes in 1993. But he also was never an All-Star selection. Doh!

Bo Díaz, C: Again, we were surprised to know he was a two-time All Star in his Ohio days (1981 Cleveland, 1987 Cincinnati). In the latter season, he posted 2.0 dWAR—his best defensive season ever, by quite a lot, and at age 34, no less. That alone should have won him the vote, right? The majority of his career 7.9 dWAR came in his early-to-mid 30s when he put up 4.7 dWAR from 1986-1988. Talk about finishing on a high bar.

Chris Sabo, 3B: We used to call him “Dog Face” (although his nickname was “Spuds”), and we assumed he had won a GG vote. He posted 2.4 dWAR in his rookie year, but that was the sabermetric high of his career (0.7 dWAR total). Offensively, he peaked in 1991, despite his defense never again even coming close to what it was in 1988. This is one of the more surprising defensive profiles we’ve come across in this miniseries.

Walt Weiss, SS: We were shocked to discover he’d never won a Gold Glove. His career 10.3 dWAR is good, to be sure, but maybe as Bay Area baseball fans, we were sold an embellished tale of his defensive prowess—especially since his bat wasn’t live. Yet he did post 2.4 dWAR in his rookie year (1988) and 2.7 dWAR in another year where his team rolled to a division title (1990). Not sure how those seasons were overlooked.

Mike Scioscia, C: This shock us, too. With 13.4 dWAR, he was known as a great defensive catcher and also as a great game maestro—thus, his excellent managerial career. With 2.2 dWAR on a division winner in 1988, though, we figured he would have won a Gold Glove. But no … it seems like he got very little credit for the team’s somewhat surprising 1988 success, which is odd. Interestingly, his first All-Star year was 1989.

José Oquendo, UTL: One of the first well-known utility guys, his 1989 season was impressive as he played three positions (second, short, first) to the tune of 2.8 dWAR. He was his team’s “regular” starter at second, though, so it’s weird to think he didn’t win a Gold Glove. He even delivered a career-best 3.1 oWAR that year, so why didn’t voters seem to notice his excellence? From 1988-1991, he compiled 5.8 dWAR combined. Nice.