History Made on Multiple Levels as Gold Glove Winners Announced on Sunday Night
Major League Baseball's Gold Glove Awards were announced on Sunday night and history was made on multiple fronts.
First, the award winners:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
C: Jonah Heim, Texas Rangers
1B: Nate Lowe, Texas Rangers
2B: Andres Gimenez, Cleveland Guardians
SS: Anthony Volpe, New York Yankees
3B: Matt Chapman, Toronto Blue Jays
OF: Kevin Kiermaier (Toronto Blue Jays), Steven Kwan (Cleveland Guardians) and Adolis Garcia (Texas Rangers)
UTL: Mauricio Dubon, Houston Astros
P: Jose Berrios, Toronto Blue Jays
NATIONAL LEAGUE:
C: Gabriel Moreno, Arizona Diamondbacks
1B: Christian Walker, Arizona Diamondbacks
2B: Nico Hoerner, Chicago Cubs
SS: Dansby Swanson, Chicago Cubs
3B: Ke'Bryan Hayes, Pittsburgh Pirates
OF: Ian Happ (Chicago Cubs), Brenton Doyle (Colorado Rockies), (Fernando Tatis Jr. (San Diego Padres)
UTIL: Ha-Seong Kim (San Diego Padres)
P: Zack Wheeler (Philadelphia Phillies)
As we said, there was history made on multiple fronts with this Gold Glove class:
Per @MLBStats:
The 13 first-time winners this season are 2nd-most in a single year (14 first-time winners in 2022). This is also the 4th straight year with 10+ first-time winners.
H/T @SlangsOnSports
Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com:
with Anthony Volpe and Brenton Doyle, this is the 3rd year with multiple rookie Gold Glove winners, along with 2022 (3) and 2020 (2)
And...
Ke’Bryan Hayes is the 1st Pirates player to win Gold Glove at 3B
And on Volpe:
Anthony Volpe:
- 2nd Yankees SS to win Gold Glove, joining Derek Jeter (2009-10, 2004-06)
- 1st NYY rookie to win GG - 2nd rookie SS to win GG, joining '22 Jeremy Peña
- 22 years & 156 days on final day of season, youngest-ever SS winner, passing 1980 Alan Trammell (22 y, 228 d)
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