The Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners had been introduced this night, and provided that the Brewers had three finalists, followers of the workforce needed to really feel fairly good about seeing one in every of their guys win one. However for the primary time since Cecil Cooper and Sixto Lezcano each gained in 1979, the Brewers gained two.
Brice Turang was named the Gold Glove winner at second base and Sal Frelick was named the winner in proper subject. Blake Perkins, who was a finalist in heart subject, didn’t win.
Turang was seen as the favourite at second base, and whereas Frelick was maybe not an excellent apparent selection in proper subject, the defensive metrics all instructed he was higher than the opposite two finalists, Jake McCarthy and Mike Yastrzemski.
Perkins was an extended shot in heart subject provided that he didn’t have the taking part in time that the opposite finalists did. It was a little bit of an upset that the reigning winner, Brenton Doyle, retained his award over the Nationals’ Jacob Younger, who was by some measures the very best defensive outfielder in baseball.
Turang and Frelick are simply the twelfth and thirteenth Gold Glove winners in franchise historical past. 5 of these belong to first baseman George Scott, who gained the award in each one in every of his seasons in Milwaukee (from 1972-76). Along with these and those gained by Cooper and Lezcano in 1979, Cooper gained one other in 1980, Robin Yount gained at shortstop in 1982, and Carlos Gómez and Lorenzo Cain gained in heart subject in 2013 and 2019, respectively.
Turang and Frelick will now be eligible for the Platinum Glove Award, which is awarded to the Gold Glove winner deemed to be the very best of their respective league through fan voting. When you’d wish to vote, you could accomplish that at Rawlings’ web site. The winner (and the Workforce Gold Glove Awards) will probably be introduced on November 8.
