Major League Baseball announced the Gold Glove winners tonight, as selected by a group of managers, coaches, and statistical analysis. Twenty-five percent of the selection total was determined by SABR’s Defensive Index metrics, while the other 75 percent was determined by votes from all 30 managers and up to six coaches from each team. Of the latter pool, managers and coaches were limited to voting on players in their own league, and they weren’t allowed to vote for any players on their own team. The utility Gold Glove wasn’t determined with any votes, but rather via a defensive formula calculated by SABR and Rawlings.
The list of winners…
- AL catcher: Jonah Heim (1st Gold Glove)….finalists: Alejandro Kirk, Adley Rutschman
- AL first base: Nathaniel Lowe (1st)….finalists: Ryan Mountcastle, Anthony Rizzo
- AL second base: Andres Gimenez (2nd)….finalists: Mauricio Dubon, Marcus Semien
- AL third base: Matt Chapman (4th)….finalists: Alex Bregman, Jose Ramirez
- AL shortstop: Anthony Volpe (1st)….finalists: Carlos Correa, Corey Seager
- AL left field: Steven Kwan (2nd)….finalists: Austin Hays, Daulton Varsho
- AL center field: Kevin Kiermaier (4th)….finalists: Luis Robert Jr., Julio Rodriguez
- AL right field: Adolis Garcia (1st)….finalists: Kyle Tucker, Alex Verdugo
- AL pitcher: Jose Berrios (1st)….finalists: Sonny Gray, Pablo Lopez
- AL utility: Mauricio Dubon (1st)….finalists: Zach McKinstry, Taylor Walls
- NL catcher: Gabriel Moreno (1st)….finalists: Patrick Bailey, J.T. Realmuto
- NL first base: Christian Walker (2nd)….finalists: Freddie Freeman, Carlos Santana
- NL second base: Nico Hoerner (1st)….finalists: Ha-Seong Kim, Bryson Stott
- NL third base: Ke’Bryan Hayes (1st)….finalists: Ryan McMahon, Austin Riley
- NL shortstop: Dansby Swanson (2nd)….finalists: Francisco Lindor, Ezequiel Tovar
- NL left field: Ian Happ (2nd)….finalists: David Peralta, Eddie Rosario
- NL center field: Brenton Doyle (1st)….finalists: Michael Harris II, Alek Thomas
- NL right field: Fernando Tatis Jr. (1st)….finalists: Mookie Betts, Lane Thomas
- NL pitcher: Zack Wheeler (1st)….finalists: Jesus Luzardo, Taijuan Walker
- NL utility: Ha-Seong Kim (1st)….finalists: Mookie Betts, Tommy Edman
What a defensive season for rookie Bailey.
Yeah , he led the league in Errors. And only played 3/4 of the season. That’s clearly hard to do
Yeah, nothing to do with him being fatigued. He’s clearly unbelievably talented defensively
Gold glove finalist speaks for itself. Haters gonna hate
Idk enough about Bailey’s defense to say one way or the other, but there are several other players that are on this list that really weren’t that great defensively.
Also, I’m probably biased, but the fact that Michael Harris didn’t win the GG is absolutely absurd. Dude did nothing but make highlight play after highlight play all year long, and made difficult plays look routine.
Maybe the kid from Colorado was just that much better, let’s be honest, he plays for the Rockies, so idk how his season went, but I find it really difficult to imagine anyone playing a better CF than what I watched Harris play.
Maybe I’m wrong, and if so, that dude must just be the second coming of Andruw Jones or something, idk..
Michael Harris II is a good defensive CF and not winning the Gold Glove award doesn’t change that. However, the most obvious choice in all MLB was CF where Colorado rookie Brenton Doyle was the winner.. He’s that good.
In the AL, Cleveland’s LF Steven Kwan is the only other obvious choice for Gold Glove winner.
The winners aren’t as subjective to opinions and writers whims as they once were but, they still have that element. When I evaluate, I remove the league, team, age and name. This is My List:
C ARI Gabriel Moreno
1B LAD Freddie Freeman
2B CLE Andres Gimenez
3B PIT Ke’Bryan Hayes
SS COL Ezequiel Tovar
LF CLE Steven Kwan
CF COL Brenton Doyle
RF WSN Lane Thomas
SP WSN Patrick Corbin
Yeah so was Juan Soto last year.
Balk – Agreed, and I’m outraged Devers didn’t win a GG!
Patrick Corbin? How do you come up with a guy as the GG winner for both leagues who wasn’t even a finalist in his own league?
Let’s see you do it.
Huh?
I’m not paid to do it
I’m sure there’s a reason for that! Hahaha
Bull doesn’t play catcher better then Bailey, but Gabby Moreno does. Open and shut book.
For this year….
Kinda odd that Mountcastle was nominated for this tbh. He’s not horrible, but he’s far from excellent at first.
Eddie Rosario being nominated is more astounding.
Basically if you can just you probably can win the GG in NL LF if you can tie your shoes and walk chew gum at the same time.
With Rosario i think have a past history of being able to place their outfielders into spots to make more plays. I remember when Nick Markakis won a gold glove for for right field he wasn’t that great.
Yeah, when I saw Rosario’s name it made me think how far the bar has been lowered. He’s never been known for his defense…..at least not Gold Glove caliber
Yeah, Rosario was insane lol, but his defense was pretty good this year tbh.
Now, with that being said, it was LARGELY due to the fact he has Michael Harris playing next to him. Rosario really only had to go for balls hit to him in a short range, and he did do fairly well.
Even so, I would NEVER even consider Rosario for a GG award..lol That’s honestly just laughable.
They should have just given it to three outfielders, because Michael Harris DEFINITELY deserved a GG for his play in the field this year. That young man is a defensive wizard in CF, he gets excellent jumps, takes perfect routes, and plays balls at the wall with the very best of the best.
Yeah Ian happ from defensive liability to gg
I feel like this is a couple of those old head voting scenarios where a good hitter at the spot also got the additional hardware. Palmeiro, Jeter, Abreu all come to mind as scenarios like that.
I’m thankful the voting has at least gotten better. I think Bill James and the Fielding Bible have a lot to do with that.
Glad to see Dubon got a gold glove, he worked hard this year and played great defense both in center and 2nd, his bat also showed significant improvement since he joined the Astros. Nice work by Nathaniel Lowe as well, went from one of the worst last year to one of the best. Gotta appreciate that hard work paying off.
Glad to see dubon succeed, wish it was with the giants
Dubon didn’t win.
He did for Utility.
Ha Seong Kim got robbed. To my eye, he’s the best fielding middle IF in the game. A gold, if not a platinum glove level SS/2B.
Robbed of what? He won a GG..
Nico Hoerner got it…. and deserved it
Every time I watched the Pads Kim was playing SS. When he didn’t win at SS I did sort of jump the gun because I didn’t know he won at 2b. Anyways, he was the best fielding SS I saw last year and I do watch a lot of MLB, although admittedly my viewing is spread over several teams, not just one home team.
You based your opinion on at most 17 games? Because you said yourself, every time you watched Kim play, he was at SS. Kim played 153 innings at short which equates to 17 games.
Nico had 12 DRS to Kim’s 10 and 14 OAA to Kim’s 7. You may watch a lot of MLB but you don’t know what you’re talking about.
And for shortstop, Swanson led the entire the league regardless of position.
17 games is a lot. Maybe he has the shortstop package.
Kim won the GG for utility.
Bailey shoulda won the Platinum and he gets snubbed for the Gold, wow
Lol…. No, he didn’t get robbed of anything. He wasn’t even the best catcher, let alone all around Defense to win a platinum. Tatis will win that, hes twice the player.
+17 OAA was 2nd in the league and he didn’t debut til late May
You don’t get concessions for playing less games.
Maybe when he tries to deliver baby like posey he’ll get his due
Holy shiet – Volpe!
I really didn’t see it. He seemed average at best in the games I watched. Good for him though.
I know right??!! I was surprised as well here. I mean.. the kid’s not bad … but Gold Glove???
Voting is skewed towards the eye test but still impressive for a rookie who barely played in AAA.
But but- he’s a Yankee. Jeter ARod and Papi prolly said something nice about him on Fox guffaw fest during the Yankees 87th consecutive appearance on national broadcasts so that sealed it.
Giving the GG to an undeserving Yankees SS is kinda the tradition. I would also take Seager’s bat anyday, but him getting a finalist nod over Baez, among others, is ridiculous. Ok
What does bat have anything to do with a fielding award? Have you checked the stats of winners above?
It was a down year for defensive SS in the AL.. Once Wander Franco was suspended, Anthony Volpe deserved the award in the AL.
Easily the deserving winner of gold glove shortstop when Franco went down plays in small market KC he was easily better then Volpe and it’s a joke that Volpe won it over him.
No like most people you went right over maybe the best including Franco. It’s amazing how playing in KC makes a difference he was easily the best non Franco AL short stop and it was close between them.
Is that right? When was the last time it went to an undeserving Yankees SS?
They could change the name from Gold Glove to the annual undeserving Yankee ss award if that makes you feel better
Franco was the best defensive SS in the Al, but they couldn’t give it to him because of his off field issues. Volpe was 2nd or 3rd best so he got it.
He had twice as many defensive runs saved than anybody else in the American League. He was the clear winner.
I’m glad he won, a great achievement. However I think he’s the second baseman of the future, with Peraza at SS.
Assuming- Peraza figures out MLB pitching, AND either or both aren’t traded away.
Frankly, this off-season I’m more concerned about a knee-jerk reaction to the 2023 season than anything.
Dude just helped your team all year get a ring. Enjoy being the defending champs!
Michael Harris II losing to Brenton Doyle is a joke.
Michael Harris was injured on disabled list and then wore a brace for a while. Don’t think his first half stats are all that good. He only got healthy late in the second half of season
Didn’t Doyle throw a ball 105 MPH from the outfield? That’s nuts.
Gotta throw the Rockies a bone, I guess
Doyle was lowkey insane defensively this year. +19 DRS, +16 OAA, 24 UZR/150, 100th percentile of fielding run value, 1 error, 10 assists. He was in the 99th percentile in all of Baseball Savant’s defensive metrics.
Doyle was Loki the Norse god of mischief ?
Says the person that probably never saw Brenton Doyle play a single game in 2023.
The fact that Brenton Doyle was so undeniable defensively that he won a popularity contest over the other candidates speaks volumes. Probably a lot of undeserving winners, but Doyle isn’t one of them.
Funny because Doyle will probably be nothing more than a D replacement on a decent ball club despite that insane D.
Man you really don’t like Semien huh? He’s a pretty good leadoff hitter and I seem to recall him having some good plays against the stros in the ALCS in some big spots. That all being said, your team did pay him quite a lot more than I thought he might have deserved. Dude is set for life though, can’t fault him for that.
$26MM for a 7.4 bWAR second baseman who played 162 games. 20+ teams would take that in a heartbeat
Disliking a player because your team decided to give him a boatload of money, deserved or not, but a a bit childish. No?
Who cares if the whole team is overpaid? You won a World Series. None of that matters now.
Yeah overpaid definitely a thing only if you dont win WS.
Semien was one of the most UNDERPAID veteran players in baseball this season. 7.4 WAR for his $26 million salary is an incredible amount of surplus value. More than $40 million in SURPLUS value.
Among veteran players with 6 plus years of service time only Betts was more of a bargain for his team.
should we point out the irony that Semien has been worth more to the Rangers than Seager both last season and the season before while being paid almost 25% less Seager yet is overpaid. What does this make Seager and why is it in their name? Wonder if there is some confusion here.
Lol. Even if you don’t like WAR as a component to evaluate talent, your argument is still full or personal biases and flawed logic.
so what your saying by this logic Degrom who will only pitch what 6 games over two years is not overpaid and is worth every penny because if he played full seasons he could be a shoe in cy young candidate. So the rangers top target for pitching is James Paxton long term deal 20 -25 mil a year for 6-7 years sound about right?
By this same logic, Ernie Clement with the Blue Jays last season would have been a top player to go after and even better can play multiple positions. a 144 OPS+ with almost 900 OPS. with only 50 PA and a 1 WAR he would have been worth what 8 WAA?. Are you sending multiple top prospects for him?
Also your stats of the at bats between 1st and 2nd would on average be less than 20 difference. The average count of plate appearances per game for 1st spot is 4.04 and 2nd is 3.97. so not sure where your 20% number comes from unless you counting games played in there as well where the last 3 years Semien has averages over 160 and Seagar averages 110. What if Semien was out 3 of those games this year and it cost them 3 wins .. the rangers would be looking up at the playoffs instead of winning the world series. Also how do you know in those games missed Seager would have been on a cold streak and all those numbers fall in line to his career averages or prior season numbers when he played most of that season? Which are still very good but not his 2023 numbers.
Glad Hayes got it this year. Deserved it last year honestly.
At least Chapman has one positive for him heading into free agency
With a bat shaped like a question mark, you’re absolutely right.
This made me laugh..Good one, thanks.
That explains the strikeouts.
More riddler than joker?
Anthony Volpe is going to be big once his bat adjusts.
IF
Agreed Pads Fans. Volpe is going to have to adjust his approach to hitting, not just adjust to major league pitching.
Anthony Volpe is going to be big once he signs a contract extension and then sits around on the couch all day scarfing potato chips
@Dumpster Don’t you have a new PBO and manager/GM to go bash?
You’re not wrong
Is verdugo going to pout again because he didn’t win?
If he was just a better player overall, he could get it. Definition of someone who is a good player all around but just doesn’t eclipse great in even one category.
If the award were given out based on defense he should have won. He had better defensive numbers across the board than Garcia, but Garcia had the better offensive season and for whatever reason that still remains a factor in the GG voting.
With all these crazy and asinine rules, I wouldn’t be surprised if Manfred assigns the DH position a gold glove in the coming years.
Or just give out one gold glove to a single player in each league. Have to speed up the ceremony so other fans stay interested!
I think it’s stupid how the gold glove always goes to offensively minded players whose team has made the playoffs.
That sadly happens a lot, but I feel it happens less often than it used to. I mean Brenton Doyle took home the award and played with a 103 loss Rockies team with an OPS below .600.
Three NL GG went to Cubs players. Not a playoff team and the players that won were not near the top in any of the offensive categories.
True, I just see the big names.
@Cora Andrelton Simmons and Kevin Kiermaier both have four GGs.
In his prime, Andrelton Simmons was absolutely the best defensive SS I’ve ever seen..
The fact most teams wanted to draft him as a Pitcher is still crazy to me, but it isn’t that surprising considering he also had an absolute cannon!!
Most teams also wanting to draft Austin Riley and Michael Harris as pitchers also baffles me, especially Michael Harris.
I started following baseball during Ozzie’s mid-career and I’d have to agree with Simmons.
Colorado has a few good defenders. Rookies SS Ezequiel Tovar and OF Nolan Jones are excellent defenders to go along with 3B Ryan McMahon and C Elias Diaz.
Funny you mention Andrelton Simmons, because he won gold gloves on two of his most offensively minded seasons (2017 and 2018). Just pointing that out.
Yup correlation between offensive up years and gg awards is maddening. Like Kiermaier winning again because he’s not battling the Mendoza line despite fading defense
Hayes should have won it last year as well although the bat matters too.
Hopefully he’s got a few more GGs in his future.
The bat is solely for Silver Slugger consideration, it shouldn’t factor at all in who wins a GG.
Although, that’s not to say there hasn’t been some years where some undeserving sluggers were gifted GGs.
You’re right it “shouldn’t”, but I think some of the coaches use it anyway. Kind of as a tie breaker, for players with similar stats.
Which renders the award meaningless when coaches can’t discern defensive value and reward guys based on reputation or offense as a crutch . See Jeter, D
Just human nature. If the difference is real close, like Hayes and Arenado last year for example. You’re taking the better all around player, at least last season. It’s either that, or you have to, using a boxing analogy, have to knock out the champion.
Curiously the All star game has evolved away from the tie goes to the champion mentality which used to be the case back in the day when it was largely a popularity contest and you’d see the same boring Steve Garvey mugs (8 consecutive all stars, 4 GG) year after year. Now you see an abundance of first timers each year which while perhaps overly prone to small sample size theater, at least mixes it up some. So bring on the Bailey, Doyles, and Kims. We hardly know you.
I use ops in all-star voting. Even though I have no idea what a good ops is, because I have no idea how to figure out slugging percentage. I don’t think fan voting should be a factor, instead it seems to be the biggest factor. I like good defense but readily admit it’s a non-factor in most people’s opinions, including my own.
So glad to see Kim get some love. Dude is a wizard in the infield.
Dude is good all around and goes unnoticed I feel. 17 homeruns and 38 stolen bases… insane
Yeah, this was the first year I really got to see him play more than just a couple games, and I definitely came away very impressed.
Kim is just a really good, all-around player that’s SEVERELY underrated. I’m not so sure that’ll be the case anymore with the season he had.
He was underrated before this year, just also not as good, bit his WAR last year was through the charts
Didn’t see much Pods on TV (yeah regional baseball, late night). And the Pods didn’t come into town until the very last season of the series. And then saw Kim for the very first time in person in games 160-62. Damn what a revelation! Dude is as smooth and intuitive a talent as any new player out there and can fly on the bases
3 Cubs!!! Go Cubs Go!!
Whee! Cubbies! Congrats on that playoff run. No one saw that coming! Too bad they couldn’t finish the job v the Rangers.
Is Tatis really better than mookie in the outfield??
Yes
Significantly better. His defensive metrics are unreal, he should probably win the platinum glove as well.
Could Kim have won at 2b and Utility, and Betts at RF and Utility?
The answer is probably yes as they wouldn’t have been named finalists for both awards had they not been eligible to win both awards.
3 Cubs!! Go Cubs Go!!!
24’ is gonna be a great season!
The biggest joke award in all of sports
I’m sure the guys still going through arbitration don’t mind it being a joke.
The league really hate the Mets. Swanson over Lindor? First the all star game and now a well deserved gold glove. Uncle Steve, make them really hate you. Go get Othani and trade for Soto and machado
Volpe??? Volpe??? Isn’t that a little premature ?? I mean, someday maybe but this year,?? My man J.P. Crawford got royally screwed again, not even nominated. Life is an endless abyss of discontent and it ends in death.
Franco was the best in the Al, but they couldn’t give him the award with his off the field issues.
No one question fWAR or defensive metrics
/somehow they love Eddie Rosario lolol
Bruce Bochy won’t be surprised about Jonah Heim winning the gold glove. He basically played Heim until he dropped in the playoffs. Hurt his offense but the glove was too valuable.
And for GOLDEN Gloves I nominate Tim Anderson and Jose Ramirez.
You’re old, boomer
Mookie got robbed.
btw who are the WORST fielders in each league?
Tim Anderson and Kyle Schwarber
That would be the molding gloves awards. They come out next week.
More like the Granite Glove awards. Raffy Devers would be a strong candidate at 3B for this award.
The worst:
C WSN Keibert Ruiz
1B DET Specer Torkelson
2B HOU Jose Altuve
3B NYM Brett Baty
SS CHW Tim Anderson
SS SFG Brandon Crawford
LF PHI Kyle Schwarber
CF OAK Estuery Ruiz
RF STL Jordan Walker
Pirates catcher Davis would have won for RF but he didn’t play enough innings to qualify LOL
You could add a category for managers who put their players in positions they are not yet capable of mastering .
Walker wont be on that list next year. Made huge strides in rookie year never having played the outfield before. Has great closing speed and an absolute cannon arm. was brutal on reads early on but got alot better by then end.
Congratulations to the winners. Gold glove awards aren’t perfect but they are doing much better than in the past.
Glad Doyle got it for CF! Dude was absolutely insane out in Coors this year. Him and Nolan Jones have a pair of howitzers in the outfield, it’s like the only positive the Rockies had in 2023z hope he learns how to hit better lol
These gold glove awards are just awful. As much as I don’t like Lindor, he was easily the best shortstop in all of baseball this year and it wasn’t even close. As far as Volpe goes, he played a lot but he seemed pretty average in my opinion. I don’t watch many AL teams play so I can’t say who was better than him, no one really stood out to me but I’d probably give it to Correa. I’m not a fan of GG for outfielders. It makes no sense why each outfield position gets their own GG, it should be the top 3 fielders in the outfield (aka 3 Center Fielders). Ha-Seong Kim should of been the GG for second base. I was really surprised Tommy Edman didn’t get win for utility, he would have been my go to for that position for GG. No idea how Mountcastle lost to Heim, that was a straight up robbery
I think Mountcastle lost to Heim cuz Mountcastle doesn’t catch… ur a clown
@baseball99 I ment Rutschman*
@LGM I am horribly biased but for SS in the AL check out J.P. Crawford, I think he’s criminally under-rated. Probably co-MVP with J-Rod for the M’s this season.
He’s not wrong
Some love to the 3 Dbacks finalists, of whom 2 won Gold Gloves and the other should have!
Christian Walker’s repeat was an absolute runaway win. Someone mentioned that this award just goes to guys that pass the eye test. That is definitely Not true of Walker. He passes both the eye test and the defensive numbers test.
Gabby Moreno absolutely slammed the door on other team’s running games by throwing out even the best base stealers.
Alek Thomas should have won NL CF Gold Glove! The guy made highlight reel catches on virtually a nightly basis, and was the core of the “No Fly” defense the Dbacks OF of Thomas, Carroll, Gurriel and McCarthy.
Doyle was by far the best CF in the NL. It wasn’t even close.
Christian Walker and Alek Thomas sure came up big on D on the big stage
Walker’s throw into left field during that World Series exchange didn’t pass the eye test. Or the ball that kept rolling rolling rolling, rawhide past Alek Thomas. More like the Energizer bunny test. Ball keeps going and going
Finally removing consideration for gold glove at dh
Greinke should have won tbe pitcher award. I prefer the Fielding Bible Awards.
I trust anything called the Fielding Bible. That just seems…..righteous
I guess Varsho didn’t win because he also played a bunch in CF, but he was great this year.
Mullins not atleast being a finalist is a joke. Best fielding center fielder in the game
Reliable and reproducible defensive metrics have been unbelievably difficult to produce. So many of the various metrics have relied on the biases of humans to make judgments. Now, with the ability to track all players and the position of the ball, the defensive metric may be the single most accurate measurement in baseball (if properly implemented. ) MLB calls it Outs Above Average. However, some players with great range and yet they may not look as good as the fielder who lunges for the ball at the last minute.
With those caveats in mind, here are the OAA for the GG winners and the player with the OAA at that position. In some cases, one could argue for the non-top OAA player. But in others, no way.
AL
1b: NLowe (5) vs. Rizzo (6).
2b: Gimenez (18)
3b: Chapman (4) vs. Garcia (13).
ss: Volpe (1) vs. Witt (14) (or even Franco (12))
lf: Kwan (9)
cf: Kiermaier (13)
rf: Garcia (4) vs. Brenna (5).
NL:
1b: Walker (11).
2b: Hoerner (13) vs. Estrada (20).
3b: Hayes (17).
ss: Swanson (20). Best in the league
lf: Happ (-7) vs. Yelich (4). (Yes, negative -7.)
cf: Doyle (16)
rf: Tatis (11)
Looks to me Happ & Volpe shouldn’t have even won a Participation Trophy, much less a Burger King Crown.
Thank you for this. Even the eye test would tell you that Ian Happ was a defensive liability out there, riding on his reputation (he started out well initially as a CF) and his multi positional flexibility. It soon became apparent that he has flexibility because he doesn’t handle any position particularly well. The -7 OAA is clearly empirical evidence of that, not to mention all the balls that would ping pong off him but weren’t called errors. Hate to make him the poster child of this because he’s a sensitive dude who sounds like he’s gonna cry in his radio appearances and brews great coffee ( he should get a food network gig ) but potential trades have broken down because of his defensive question marks.
You know who else had a strong arm? Sammy Sosa. Sammy! Sammy! Gold glove! Gold glove!
It is true that Happ led the NL LFs in assists with 12. But Gurriel had 8 in fewer games. And he had range and far more reliability.
The GG selection is getting better. However, there are still problems.
Uh, what? Volpe, everytime I watched Yankee games, would miss routine ground balls or he’d bobble the ball like a minor leaguer. How is he even considered good, nevertheless a GG???
The Gold Glove awards may be the biggest joke of any award in all of sports, and even the entertainment world. I first realized this when Bobby Abreu won a GG while playing for the Phillies. He had made 0 errors and had a decent amount of assists, but he was terrible as far as range goes, and anyone who watched him play on a daily basis,(or close to it), gave him grief about his defensive efforts, and running jokes were him being allergic to the wall and the RF line.
In any event, there are so many poor selections each year, and I’ll start with two Phillies who were wronged, 1) Bryson Stott is/was the best defensive 2B this season, and is better than Nico.2) Zack Wheeler is a great defensive SP, but he has a minimum of 2( Ranger Suarez and Taijuan Walker and maybe even 4- Nola and Sanchez) better defensive SPs on his own team.
The Gold Glove like the Gold Globe, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press?
I also think JT Realmuto was robbed again. He started 135 games behind the plate and calls a great game for all of his pitchers, keeps base runners honest, with his league best pop time, and great arm, and for him to only have 2 Gold Glove Awards in his career is preposterous!In his 5 seasons with the Phillies, he’s caught 145 ,47(of 60), 139, 132, & 135 games and has been a stellar defensive C, offensive C, and baserunner. And that doesn’t include his years with Miami.
Nah, Realmuto had a poor season by his standards and was practically lapped by Moreno in CS%. I think Moreno won it going away.
Realmuto is traditionally the gold standard but the way the Snakes (normally a slow slithering reptile known more for deceptively quick reflexes after lulling you into a fall sense) ran roughshod over him, not so sure. Realmuto played more like fakemuto
Good to see Hayes finally hit well enough this season to unseat Arrenado.
Last year The Fielding Bible gave their award to Arrenado even though Hayes beat him out using the defensive value system invented by The Fielding Bible.
Gold Glove awards are about as logically driven as HOF selections these days.
Was the vote before the post season? 5 out of winners where from the 2 WS teams.
and that’s how you get to the World Series, with good defense.
Yes, all award voting happens before the playoffs
Volpe? You’ve got to be kidding….
Swanson made 3 or 4 critical errors the last week of the Cubs’ folded season. I thought that might sway some voters away from him. He’d probably agree with me how bad he was that week when it counted.
All these people poking **** at Rosario. I know it’s from 2021, but the guy is a solid defender. Yes, sometimes he did have some poor reads on balls that landed in front of him, that’s life.
He is what he is.
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What type of horrible take is this? Semien was an ironman, defensive stalwart, and all star leadoff hitter for the World Series champions. There is absolutely nothing objective on which to base your claim of overrated.
As someone who watched every Astros game this season, Dubon shouldn’t even sniff a gold glove. I’m really not sure how they hand these things out??? Rotated between 2B and CF and he did an admirable job filling in for Altuve at 2nd when he was hurt. BUT in CF Dubon was a HUGE liability. Didn’t take good routes to the ball, anytime he got near the wall he was scared and missed balls that were sure outs. He did a great job filling in, but he is the worst CF I have ever watched, so I have not one clue how he won a gold glove??? Just taints the entire thing in my opinion when you give out an award for defense to the worst defender in all of baseball in CF.
I still hate the Varsho trade but it doesnt make sense he doesnt win a GG or Fielding Bible award when he has better defensive stats than the winners?
Yeah why the GG award is bizarre for rewarding players more renowned for hitting. Marcus has improved since his early days as a defensive sieve fo sho but should never be regarded as the very best
Does anybody here know how to sort Fielding Run Value by position on Baseball Savant or anywhere else where it’s housed? I can isolate OAA by position but can only find Fielding Run Value as a total of all defensive positions on the season.
Jay’s trade Gabby to keep what they perceive to be a better defensive catcher in Jansen… how’d that work out?! Horrible trade for the Jay’s already!
It was a horrible trade but it had nothing to do with Jansen (other than the fact they had 3 catchers). It had to do with their obsession with Varsho and that they would pay any cost for him.
What is a Brenton Doyle and why did they give him a charity gold glove?
Brenton Doyle. Wasn’t he the lesser known Murray in Caddyshack, fated to a career of disappointment and obscurity like other lesser knowns- your Clint Howard’s and Beau Bridges?
Brenton Doyle screams tiktok super influencer.
Vlad won a GG at 1st too and he is awful there.
Varsho didn’t win a gg while having 29 DRS lol what a joke the gg is