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Toronto Blue Jays continue to rack up defensive honors with Gold Glove Award
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Toronto Blue Jays continue to rack up defensive honors with Gold Glove Award

Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Daulton Varsho will need to make more room on his mantle… Having already won the Fielding Bible Defensive Player of the Year award, Varsho has been named the league’s Gold Glove Award winner American on center field Sunday evening. .

This is Varsho’s first career Gold Glove victory.

According to the Blue Jays, here’s how the voting for the awards goes do:

To determine the winners at the nine standard positions, MLB’s 30 managers and up to six coaches from each team vote from a pool of players in their league, excluding players from their own team. These votes represent 75% of the total selection, with the SABR Defensive Index accounting for the remaining 25%.

Varsho, one of the best outfielders in the game, has actually played all three outfield positions this season. He started 76 games at center, 46 games at left and 32 games at right. He appeared in 94 total games in center, logging 672.0 innings there. He made just one mistake in the middle and had four assists.

Varsho’s glove helps him stay in the lineup as his bat has lagged in recent seasons. Since arriving in Toronto ahead of the 2023 season, he has hit just .217 with a .289 on-base percentage. He still has power, hitting 38 home runs over those two seasons. He had 18 this season in 136 games before being shut down with a season-ending shoulder injury.

Varsho was not the only one Blue Jays nominated player, but he was the only winner. Third baseman Ernie Clement lost to Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros.

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