Earlier this week, Rawlings introduced the winners of the annual Gold Glove awards, the place Brice Turang and Sal Frelick had been honored at second base and proper area, respectively. Tonight, the Brewers discovered that they obtained much more defensive {hardware}.
Turang was honored because the Platinum Glove winner, recognizing him (through fan vote) as the perfect defensive participant at any place within the Nationwide League. Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh gained the American League’s model of the award. Moreover, the Brewers gained the Nationwide League’s staff Gold Glove award for the second straight season, with the Toronto Blue Jays additionally repeating as winners within the American League.
That is the primary Platinum Glove for a Brewer for the reason that award’s inception in 2011. The staff Gold Glove awards had been new in 2020, and in an odd quirk, no Nationwide League staff outdoors the NL Central has but gained it (the Cubs gained in 2020, the Cardinals in ‘21 and ‘22, and now the Brewers in ‘23 and ‘24).
Awards season continues on Tuesday with the Silver Slugger bulletins, for which Willy Adames, Jackson Chourio, and William Contreras are finalists.
