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Posey, Longoria, and Belt are three of the top 25 defenders in the National League

I know that none of the current Giants are very popular with most of our readership, especially the legacy players, and I’m sure to get some angry emails for posting anything positive about these three, but . . . (overly dramatic sigh) I’m gonna do it anyway.

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) released the final Defensive Index rankings for 2019 yesterday, which uses their SABR Defensive Index (SDI) to calculate defensive prowess. SDI “accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold Glove selection process that was added to the votes from managers and coaches.