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Matt Chapman of the A was the best defensive player in the majors, according to the SABR index, which accounts for 25% of the Gold Glove vote.
Matt Chapman of the A was the best defensive player in the majors, according to the SABR index, which accounts for 25% of the Gold Glove vote.
Photo: Brace Hemmelgarn / Getty Images
Matt Chapman of the A was the best defensive player in the majors, according to the SABR index, which accounts for 25% of the Gold Glove vote.
Matt Chapman, of the A, was the best defensive player of the majors, according to the SABR index, which accounts for 25% of the vote in the gold glove.
Photo: Brace Hemmelgarn / Getty Images
As with everything related to the 2018 baseball season, Sunday's Gold Glove ads have cheered the east side of the bay and the disappointment in the West.
The A, whose surprising run to the AHL Wild League was fueled in part by a great improvement in defense, broke a 12-year drought for Oakland infielders and won two gold gloves base player Matt Olson and third base player Matt Chapman.
But the Giants have been excluded for the first time since 2014.
Brandon Crawford's reign as short-stop for the National League for the Golden Gloves came to an end after a three-year loss to first-time winner Nick Ahmed of the Diamondbacks. Crawford was one of three finalists.
Buster Posey, who won his only trophy in 2016 and was also a finalist this year, was defeated by Yadier Molina, who won for the ninth time, his first since 2015.
Marcus Semien, the second baseman, and second baseman Jed Lowrie were also finalists, but were beaten respectively by the Angels of the Angels and Ian Kinsler of the Red Sox.
The first glove of Chapman gold was hardly a surprise. In mid-August, he was leading the majors in all positions with a defensive index of 19.5 SABR, which accounts for 25% of the Gold Glove formula. A vote of coaches and managers of each league counts for the other 75%.
Last year's winner at third base, Evan Longoria, was traded to the Giants after the season and was not a finalist at the NL for an award won by Nolan Arenado for the sixth year in a row.
Olson (5.8) and Semien (11.6) also dominated their respective positions, but Simmons' reputation – and the previous three Gold Gloves – have influenced coaches and managers. Lowrie (4.9) is ranked third among AL's second baseman.
Oakland ended a 2012 Gold Glove drought when fighter Josh Reddick won. The A's had no more winners on the battlefield since 2006, when Eric Chavez won the last of his six straight games at third base.
A's shot reflects a significant improvement in their defense. In the defensive innings saved, one of the statistics used in the SABR index, they moved from last place in the majors in 2017, to less-42.4, to the third best performance (37.7 ).
The defensive heats of the saved Giants went from 7.2 in 2017, when they ranked 14th in the major leagues, to 19.1 in 2018, ranking seventh in the majors.
Posey led all NL catchers with a SABR 5.1 rating. But he could have been injured in the Directors / Coaches vote by playing only 88 games behind the board in a season of injury.
Crawford ranks fourth among NHL stopovers with a score of 4.9, far behind the 11.7 of Ahmed, championship leaders.
Brandon Belt led the Giants in the overall standings with 6.9, the ninth best league player in any position, but his season was also limited by injuries and he was not a finalist at first base. Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs and Freddie Freeman of the Braves finished tied and will share the prize.
Henry Schulman is a writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @hankschulman
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