{"id":56899,"date":"2022-10-21T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=56899"},"modified":"2022-10-21T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:36:24","slug":"2022-gold-glove-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/10\/21\/2022-gold-glove-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Blue Jays Are Rawlings Gold Glove Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawlings.com\/gold-glove-finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rawlings<\/a> announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawlings.com\/gold-glove-criteria.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2022 Gold Glove finalists<\/a> on Thursday afternoon. Five <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/10\/21\/john-schneider-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are among the nominees. Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos, Jackie Bradley Jr., Matt Chapman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Whit Merrifield finished in the top three at their respective positions. Each will learn on November 1 whether or not they won the award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The selection criteria for the Rawlings Gold Glove award consist of different factors. There&#8217;s a combination of the SABR Defensive Index (25%) and a vote of managers and coaches (75%). The metric component of the Index, SABR uses <a href=\"https:\/\/fieldingbible.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defensive Runs Saved<\/a>. Each team gets seven votes for the awards in each league- the manager plays six coaches. In addition, there are 10 awards- one per defensive position, plus a utility player like Merrifield for the first time. No one can vote for a player from their own team.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2022 Gold Glove Finalists from the Toronto Blue Jays<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos<\/strong>, Pitcher<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists &#8211; Pitcher &#8211; AL: Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos, Shane Bieber, Jameson Taillon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RawlingsGoldGloveAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RawlingsGoldGloveAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ZPP7DYJ1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9ZPP7DYJ1d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rawlings Baseball (@RawlingsSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RawlingsSports\/status\/1583157353796734977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos earned consecutive nominations after playing in 32 games. He posted a record of 12-7 with a 5.23 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 172 innings pitched. He had six putouts, 16 assists, one error and one double play. His Rdrs was one in the season. Berrios is up against Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Guardians and Jameson Taillon of the New York Yankees. Bieber went 13-8 with a 2.88 ERA and 198 strikeouts in 200 innings. He had eight putouts, 18 assists, one error, and two double plays with 15 putouts, 16 assists, an error and a double play as his Rdrs was two. Taillon was 14-5 with a 3.91 ERA with 151 strikeouts in 171 1\/3 innings. He finished the season with two Rdrs.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/strong>, First Base<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Channels His Inner Point Guard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wnChoVgAlmQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. earned the first Gold Glove nomination of his career. The two-time All-Star is up against Anthony Rizzo of the Yankees and Luis Arraez of the Minnesota Twins. In 1121 innings across 128 games, Guerrero Jr. had 969 putouts, 47 assists, 10 errors, and 80 double plays. He had a -2 Total Zone Runs Above Average (Rtot), meaning his range and arm combined to allow two runs more than the average AL first baseman. In Defensive Runs Saved (Rdrs), which takes the difficulty of plays into consideration, Guerrero Jr. had a 3 Rdrs.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo had 919 putouts, 72 assists, five errors, 71 double plays, -10 Rtot, and -3 Rdrs (fourth-worst among AL first baseman) in 1034 innings. Arraez had 437 putouts, 20 assists, one error, 42 double plays, five Rtot, and four Rdrs in 529 innings.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Matt Chapman<\/strong>, Third Base<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt Chapman starts INCREDIBLE double play!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a84pCGZmsVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Matt Chapman will be up for his fourth Gold Glove Award in six seasons. He&#8217;s a two-time winner of the Platinum Gold Glove Award, given to the best defender at any position. In 149 games, Chapman made 164 putouts while adding 263 assists, five errors, 41 double plays, -6 Rtot, and two Rdrs across 1344 1\/3 innings. The other two finalists had respectable defensive seasons of their own. Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas of the Baltimore Orioles had 54 putouts, 197 assists, eight errors, and 25 double plays. This made for 12 Rtot and 14 Rdris in 769 1\/3 innings across 74 games. Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez, who helped the Cleveland Guardians win the AL Central, had 91 putouts, 234 assists, 10 errors and 27 double plays. Had had one Rtot and two Rdrs in 1109 2\/3 innings across 114 games.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Jackie Bradley Jr.<\/strong>, Right Field<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists &#8211; Right Field &#8211; AL: Jackie Bradley Jr., Max Kepler, Kyle Tucker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RawlingsGoldGloveAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RawlingsGoldGloveAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KLk97p67xR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KLk97p67xR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rawlings Baseball (@RawlingsSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RawlingsSports\/status\/1583177508312477696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jackie Bradley Jr. joined the Blue Jays midway through the season as he&#8217;s up his second Gold Glove at right field. The 32-year-old posted a perfect fielding percentage during his time with the Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox. He played 614 1\/3 innings across 53 games, accumulating 145 putouts, six assists, two double plays and zero errors. His Rtot is eight whereas his Rdrs is 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The other two finalists are Max Kepler of the Minnesota Twins and Kyle Tucker of the Houston Astros. Kepler is a finalist despite playing 90 games in right field. In 889 1\/3 innings, Kepler had 222 putouts, five assists, two errors, and one double play. This gave him a 12 Rtot and 8 Rdrs. As for Tucker, he played in 1276 1\/3 innings across 139 games. He made 287 putouts, eight assists, three errors and one double play. His 11 Rtot and 13 Rdrs are the highest among the three finalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Whit Merrifield<\/strong>, Utility\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists &#8211; Utility &#8211; AL: DJ LeMahieu, Whit Merrifield, Luis Rengifo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RawlingsGoldGloveAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RawlingsGoldGloveAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8JXPVJrEO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8JXPVJrEO1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rawlings Baseball (@RawlingsSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RawlingsSports\/status\/1583180019429683200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whit Merrifield spent his entire career with the Kansas City Royals. He was traded to Toronto in August as his ability to play multiple positions made him a finalist for the utility position. The two-time All-Star split time playing eight innings at first, 643 1\/3 innings at second, 26 1\/3 innings in left, 120 innings in center, and 287 innings in right. Merrifield had 246 putouts, 185 assists, four errors, and 47 double plays. His Rtot was -5 with -7 Rdrs.<\/p>\n<p>The other two finalists were DJ LeMahieu of the Yankees and Luis Rengifo of the Los Angeles Angels. LeMahieu played over 960 innings in 2022- 385 2\/3 innings at third, 312 2\/3 innings at second, and 265 innings at first. He had 306 putouts, 210 assists, four errors, and 54 double plays. This gave him 15 Rtot and nine Rdrs. Rengifo played six positions in over 400 games- 693 innings at second, 250 2\/3 innings at third, 99 innings at shortstop, and 15 innings in the outfield. He had 180 putouts, 265 assists, 15 errors, and 76 double plays. This added up to 11 Rtot and two Rdrs for the season.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 2022 Gold Glove Awards Show<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Gold Glove finalists will learn their ultimate fate during a special one-hour\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Baseball Tonight<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on ESPN Tuesday, November 1, at 5 pm Eastern time. According to Rawlings, the show will air on-field before Game Four of the World Series, hosted by the National League pennant winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Main Photo:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"aN2M_cOQSOhS4pA7-jZ7sg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1240056585\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'aN2M_cOQSOhS4pA7-jZ7sg',sig:'2YNKRnA0W0_Vhx3JSBQFJsYXhytKMlrAaz2fcIffcZ4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1240056585',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Players Mentioned:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/berrijo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradlja02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackie Bradley Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chapmma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Chapman<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/guerrvl02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/merriwh01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whit Merrifield<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/biebesh01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Bieber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/taillja01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jameson Taillon<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/uriasra01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ramirjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/keplema01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Kepler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tuckeky01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Tucker<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lemahdj01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ LeMahieu<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rengilu01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Rengifo<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawlings announced its 2022 Gold Glove finalists on Thursday afternoon. Five Toronto Blue Jays are among the nominees. Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos, Jackie Bradley Jr., Matt Chapman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Whit Merrifield finished in the top three at their respective positions. Each will learn on November 1 whether or not they won the award.\u00a0 The selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":56905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1071,35,7],"tags":[5805,546,1043,1913,640,1651],"class_list":["post-56899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","category-bluejays","tag-gold-glove-award","tag-jackie-bradley-jr","tag-jose-berrios","tag-matt-chapman","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-whit-merrifield"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}