Some fun award news (probably the only award news) announced today: Freddy Galvis and Odubel Herrera have been named Rawlings Gold Glove award finalists.
Doesn’t mean they’ll win gold gloves, just that they’re in the running.
Galvis is up against shortstops Addison Russell and Brandon Crawford for the National League honor, while Herrera’s co-finalists are Ender Inciarte and Billy Hamilton.
Galvis had a tremendous year fielding his position. Fangraphs rates him a defensive number of 22 (measuring his defensive value relative to the league average; higher better), which rates him second in the National League to Crawford, slightly ahead of Russell (these are the three best choices).