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To avoid spamming the general blog page with the Player Value posts for each season/team, this blog page will serve as a separate listing of all of the Player Value posts for each season/team. These posts will be less detailed, mainly just listing out the top players each season and including the necessary files.
The 2022 season has concluded, so I have downloaded the player season statistics from Baseball Reference to apply my Player Value metric. You can read about the metric here, as well as its important addendum here. You can also view a more detailed example of Fielding Value applied to the 2010 season here. In this post, I will apply Fielding Value to the 2022 season to determine which players should win the Gold Gloves and Platinum Gloves. The Gold Glove is given to the best defensive player in the league at each position, while the Platinum Glove is given to the best defensive player in each league overall. Here's a quick reminder of the run value weights for the relevant defensive events: Putout by a non catcher or first baseman: .33 runs Unassisted Putout by a first baseman: .33 runs Non-strikeout Putout by a catcher: .33 runs Assisted Putout by a first baseman: .2*.33 = .066 runs Strikeout Putout by a catcher: .33*.33 = .1089 runs Assist: .8*.33 = .264 runs Error: -.68 runs Double Play: .10 runs Passed Ball: -.26 runs Stolen Base allowed by catcher: -.15 runs Caught Stealing by catcher: .39 runs GOLD GLOVES NL Catcher: J.T. Realmuto, Philadelphia Phillies, 23.19 Fielding Value AL Catcher: Martin Maldonado, Houston Astros, 24.83 Fielding Value NL First Base: Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals, 28.49 Fielding Value AL First Base: Nathaniel Lowe, Texas Rangers, 13.49 Fielding Value NL Second Base: Brendan Rodgers, Colorado Rockies, 41.85 Fielding Value AL Second Base: Marcus Semien, Texas Rangers, 39.64 Fielding Value NL Third Base: Ke'Bryan Hayes, Pittsburgh Pirates, 27.92 Fielding Value AL Third Base: Matt Chapman, Toronto Blue Jays, 21.22 Fielding Value NL Shortstop: Nick Allen, Oakland Athletics, 24.47 Fielding Value AL Shortstop: Miguel Rojas, Miami Marlins, 18.66 Fielding Value NL Outfield 1: Victor Robles, Washington Nationals, 25.24 Fielding Value NL Outfield 2: Alek Thomas, Arizona Diamondbacks, 22.43 Fielding Value NL Outfield 3: Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers, 21.11 Fielding Value AL Outfield 1: Akil Baddoo, Detroit Tigers, 17.57 Fielding Value AL Outfield 2: Julio Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners, 15.93 Fielding Value AL Outfield 3: Austin Hays, Baltimore Orioles, 14.41 Fielding Value NL Utility: Tommy Edman, St. Louis Cardinals, 48.28 Fielding Value AL Utility: Nicky Lopez, Kansas City Royals, 37.33 Fielding Value NL Pitcher: Alex Cobb, San Francisco Giants, 9.82 Fielding Value AL Pitcher: Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals, 7.53 Fielding Value Rawlings announced that it would begin awarding a Gold Glove for utility players starting this season. The specifics of what qualifies a player as a utility player have not been stated. I am considering a player a utility player if he does not play at least 50% of his games at one specific position. Edman was 49% a 2B, 5% a 3B, 44% a SS, 1% a RF, and 1% a CF. Lopez was 44% a 2B, 20% a 3B, 34% a SS, 1% a DH, and... 1% a P. Realmuto, Goldschmidt, Lowe, Betts, and Rodriguez were the stellar players that should win both a Silver Slugger and a Gold Glove. According to Fielding Value, Nolan Arenado's impressive streak of 9 straight Gold Gloves at 3B should come to end, as his Fielding Value of 12.76 was just the 2nd best in the NL, but still notably short of Hayes. Baseball Reference WAR agrees, giving Hayes an Rfield of 24 and Arenado and Rfield of 19. OAA also agrees, with Hayes at 18 and Arenado at 15. So all of the metrics are in agreement here, but the actual Gold Glove is a voting-based award, so historical bias towards Arenado could work in his favor. Realmuto and Maldonado should both get their 2nd Gold Glove, Goldschmidt gets his 5th, Semien gets his 2nd, Chapman gets his 4th, Betts gets his 6th, Edman gets his 2nd, and Greinke gets his 7th. Rodriguez, Allen, and Thomas are the impressive rookies to win a Gold Glove. You can cross reference these results with FanGraphs' defensive measures here, Baseball Reference's Rfield here (if you have Stathead), and general Baseball Reference fielding measures here. You can also compare to Baseball Savant's OAA leaders here. It's interesting to see the differences. Rfield had Lopez at -6, not great, but OAA has him at 14, the 9th highest in MLB. Neither Rfield nor OAA like Lowe very much, but from the basic leaderboards we see that he led first basemen in putouts, which is why his Fielding Value is high. DH fielding doesn't really matter, but there is some value in having a DH that is able to play satisfactory defense when he isn't playing as the DH. This is how the Fielding Value for DHs is measured. The DH Fielding Values aren't compared directly, since they can play very different defensive positions, but rather the player is measured against the other players at that defensive position. Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals led all DHs in the NL with a Fielding Value of 5.14, for when he played first base. Michael Brantley of the Houston Astros led all DHs in the AL with a Fielding Value of 4.85, for when he played left field. Recall that the outfield Gold Gloves go to the 3 best defensive outfielders, not the best defensive LF, CF, and RF. Ian Happ of the Chicago Cubs was the best defensive LF in the NL, with a Fielding Value of 16.48. Teoscar Hernandez of the Tornoto Blue Jays was the best defensive RF in the AL, with a Fielding Value of 11.68. The pitcher Gold Gloves are not restricted to starters, but starters generally win them since they pitch more innings and thus have more opportunities to make plays. Brusdar Graterol of the Los Angeles Dodgers had the highest Fielding Value among NL RP at 5.97. Jonathan Loaisiga of the New York Yankees had the highest Fielding Value among AL RP at 3.82. PLATINUM GLOVES NL: Tommy Edman, St. Louis Cardinals, 48.28 Fielding Value AL: Marcus Semien, Texas Rangers, 39.64 Fielding Value Edman wasn't just a valuable diverse fielder, but he was a great fielder wherever he played as well. On a traditional rate basis, he a fielding percentage of .991 compared to his first-quartile of .971, and a range factor per 9 innings of 4.67 compared to hist first-quartile of 3.61. He made about 38 more putouts, 114 more assists, 3 less errors, and 39 more double plays than the first-quartile player that played his same positional proportions would. Rfield has Edman at 18, the 6th most in MLB and 5th most in the NL, while OAA has him at 19, the 3rd most in MLB and 2nd most in the NL. Semien was not as diverse, being 90% a 2B and 10% a SS, but was still incredibly valuable. His fielding percentage comparison is .988 vs .975, and his RF9 comparison is 4.54 vs 3.69. He made about 42 more putouts, 91 more assists, 1 more error, and 20 more double plays than the first-quartile player. Rfield has him at 10, the 32nd most in MLB, while OAA has him at 8, the 36th most in MLB. OAA thinks that Jonathan Schoop, 2B for the Detroit Tigers, was best in the AL at 27. He had a Fielding Value of 22.36, the 16th most overall and 5th most among 2B. OAA thinks that Dansby Swanson, SS for the Atlanta Braves, was best in the NL at 20. He had a Fielding Value of 5.43, the 20th most among SS. Rfield likes Ke'Bryan Hayes the most in the NL, who was 7th most in MLB overall and 4th most in the NL in terms of Fielding Value. Rfield likes Michael Taylor, CF for the Kansas City Royals, the most in the AL at 19. He had a Fielding Value of 7.60, the 13th most among CF in MLB. Here are the top 10 defensive players in MLB, according to Fielding Value:
Gimenez had a fantastic defensive season, but was blocked by Semien for the AL 2B spot. Rfield actually liked him better at 15 (13th most in MLB), as did OAA at 13 (11th most in MLB). The file below shows the stats for all players in question. Players that should win the Gold Glove have their Fielding Values highlighted gold on their position's tab. Players that should win the Platinum Glove have their Fielding Values highlighted gold on the main tab. The second file has the necessary stats for all pitchers.
The data used was courtesy of Baseball Reference and can be found here, as well as here for the catcher data and here for the percentage of playing time at each position.
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