Gold Glove winners handed out for 2018 MLB season
Baseball’s award season kicked off on Sunday, starting with the best defenders in Major League Baseball.
Rawlings, like it does every November, handed out the Gold Glove awards on Sunday night, awarding the top defender at each position across both leagues from last season.
Among notable winners this season are St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, who won his ninth Gold Glove award. Molina won eight straight awards from 2008-15 before picking up his ninth this year. There was an unusual tie in the National League at first base, too, as the Atlanta Braves’ Freddie Freeman and the Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo both won the award. Rizzo picked up his second award, his first since 2016, and Freeman won his first.
Here are the position-by-position Gold Glove winners:
SHORTSTOP
AL: Andrelton Simmons, Los Angeles Angels
NL: Nick Ahmed, Arizona Diamondbacks
THIRD BASE
AL: Matt Chapman, Oakland Athletics
NL: Nolan Arenado, Colorado Rockies
SECOND BASE
AL: Ian Kinsler, Boston Red Sox
NL: DJ LeMahieu, Colorado Rockies
FIRST BASE
AL: Matt Olson, Oakland Athletics
NL: Freddie Freeman, Atlanta Braves; Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs
CATCHER
AL: Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals
NL: Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals
LEFT FIELD
AL: Alex Gordon, Kansas City Royals
NL: Corey Dickerson, Pittsburgh Pirates
RIGHT FIELD
AL: Mookie Betts, Boston Red Sox
NL: Nick Markakis, Atlanta Braves
CENTER FIELD
AL: Jackie Bradley Jr., Boston Red Sox
NL: Ender Inciarte, Atlanta Braves
PITCHER
AL: Dallas Keuchel, Houston Astros
NL: Zack Greinke, Arizona Diamondbacks
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