Andrés Giménez and Gabriel Moreno became the first Venezuelan duo to win the Gold Glove in the same season since 2019, when they obtained the award in the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) season.
Giménez, 25 years old, won his second consecutive award as the best second baseman in the American League, for his performance with the Cleveland Guardians. The native of Barquisimeto led the players of his position in Outs Above Average (18) and defensive runs saved (23), being second overall bWAR, with 2.9.
The man from Lara became the second Creole to win the distinction as a waiter on multiple occasions, after Jesús Marcano Trilo did so three times (in 1979, 1981 and 1982). In addition, he is only the second player from that place to do so more than once with the franchise, after Hall of Fame member Roberto Alomar.
“I think he’s getting better, which is hard to believe,” former Guardians manager Terry Francona said of Gimenez in September to MLB.com. “It’s special to see him play second base.”
The crepuscular was second overall in assists during the season, with 401, as well as co-leader among second basemen in Fielding Run Value, with 14, along with his compatriot Thairo Estrada. Moreno, for his part, reached his first Gold Glove in his first full season as a major leaguer with the Arizona Rattlers, also being the first catcher in the history of the National League franchise to achieve it.
The mask, with 23 calendars and 229 days completed, became the tenth youngest defender of the position to win the award, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Likewise, he joined Salvador Pérez as the only Venezuelan catchers to achieve it, Moreno with just a few days more difference than Pérez’s age when he reached him for the first time, in 2014.
Moreno led the Majors in overall defensive bWAR (3.1) and in capture percentage in steal attempts (38.6%), much higher than the general average of his colleagues in this contest of new rules that benefit running backs (20%). . Additionally, he led the Masks in defensive runs saved (20) among those who accumulated at least 800.0 innings, according to FanGraphs.
“With Gabi’s arm back there, you just get distracted from the run game and those teams trying to run,” Desert ace Zac Gallen admitted. “He puts an end to that pretty easily.”
Giménez and Moreno emulated what was done for the last time by Yolmer Sánchez (waiter) and Ender Inciarte (gardener), when both won the Gold Glove in the same contest, four harvests ago.
Source: LVBP
2023-11-07 22:54:38
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