They’ll announce the Gold Glove winners on Sunday and this year, as you’ve probably heard, the Royals have but two nominees. Salvador Perez as a catcher and Alex Gordon as a left fielder. Honestly, that sounds about right, going by the eye test. It also looks about right if you go by FanGraphs’ DEF stat. Salvy is actually fifth among catchers in the stat while Alex has nearly doubled the DEF of his next closest contender, Brett Gardner. It probably says something about how valuable left-field defense is that Andrew Benintendi is third on the list with a -1.
Hok Talk: Nobody got snubbed for the Gold Glove Award?
