For a team whose only Gold Glove Award winner over the past five years was Yoenis Cespedes for his half-season manning left field in Detroit last year, it's a nice bit of progress. For Kinsler, it's another chance at an honor that has eluded him over the years despite a compilation of defensive metrics in his favor.
Major League managers and coaches, voting only within their league and unable to vote for players on their own teams, account for 75 percent of the selection process. The other 25 percent goes to the sabermetrics community.
Kinsler is a finalist for the third time in as many seasons as a Tiger.