Rawlings announced the finalists for their 2020 Gold Glove Awards Thursday afternoon and several Cubs made the cut. This year’s awards are being determined a little differently, with the SABR Defensive Index serving as the only criteria in the selection process. Those metrics had previously accounted for approximately 25%, with votes from managers and coaches comprising the rest, but there are no votes this year.
The SABR Defensive Index draws on and aggregates two types of existing defensive metrics: those derived from batted ball location-based data and those collected from play-by-play accounts.