Multiple Minnesota Twins players will likely hear their names announced as winners of awards as the postseason comes to a close, but the first major one came on Monday as Byron Buxton won the Fielding Bible Award for center field.
What are the Fielding Bible Awards you ask? I’m glad you did…
The Award
The entire process is explained in more depth on the Fielding Bible site, but here are the basics:
- The Fielding Bible utilizes a 12-person panel to vote, 10 players listed on the ballot at each position
- All players are ranked together, National and American League, no separate award for each league
- Each player has to qualify at the position by playing a minimum number of games there
- Any tiebreakers are broken with the “plus/minus” system that is a Fielding Bible hallmark statistic
The Fielding Bible in general is a site that has done well looking at different ways to measure and look at grading defense over the last decade or so.