It’s been seven years since Manny Machado won a Gold Glove at third base for the Orioles, and in that time no other O’s player has won anything. For a lot of that time, the drought isn’t exactly surprising. The Orioles didn’t have very good players at any position on the diamond, and the poor quality of fielding showed regularly.
Things have been different in 2022, with the team as a whole scoring well on public defensive metrics like Defensive Runs Saved or Outs Above Average. Some individual Orioles really excelled here. On Thursday afternoon, the Rawlings folks in charge of the Gold Gloves revealed what they call the “finalists” for this year’s awards.