On Thursday afternoon, Rawlings Sports announced the finalists for the 2018 Gold Glove awards. These announcements contained three players by position, and as usual, they were at least somewhat strange. They weren’t all strange: many of them made sense. Presented without too much comment below are some tables I put together comparing the possible candidates with the actual three finalists (and for variety’s sake, focusing on the Braves). The only real note or caveat is that I don’t include catcher defense, because that’s basically a giant can of overly complex words in and of itself.
The tables below contain the following:
- Innings played at the listed position.