The Atlanta Braves are messing up my angle here.
See, just two years ago, Atlanta accomplished what Seattle just did: two Gold Glove winners and a Rookie of the Year award all in the same season (that’s Ender Inciarte, Nick Markakis, and Ronald Acuña Jr., for those of you curious), all of them position players. That might trick you into believing this kind of event is commonplace.
Spoiler alert: it’s not. Especially not in the American League.
Truthfully, it would have been even less of a rara avis and more of a Avis Rent-a-Car had Shohei Ohtani posted one year earlier, prior to the 2017 season, when both Andrelton Simmons and Martin Maldonado won Gold Gloves for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, USA, Planet Earth.