Fan voting continues to be a blight on professional baseball. The All-Star Game has long been a measure of a player's popularity with baseball fans rather than an assortment of the true best players in the game. In 2011, another "honor" was provided to allow fans to influence parts of the game that should be left up to statistics.
That year, baseball introduced the "Platinum Glove" Award, which took all of the winners of that year's Gold Glove Award and allowed fans to vote on one winner from each league to earn the Platinum Glove. In 2025, the American League winner was Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr.