The Gold Glove award finalists were announced this afternoon and two of the top defenders on the Giants made the cut: Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford. Brandon Belt does not enjoy the same reputations that either of them do and that’s largely why he didn’t make it into the National League first baseman grouping.
At least, that’s the only explanation that makes sense.
25% of the award is based on the SABR Defensive Index (SDI), which
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.