ST. LOUIS, Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., the originator of the iconic Rawlings Gold Glove Award® recognizing most suitable protection at every position, has now increased the platform to award the nice group protection over the route of the normal season. Two groups will obtain the newly created award – one in each the American and National Leagues.
"Since 1957, the Rawlings Gold Glove Award has been an character participant award and the wellknown by means of which all protective excellence is measured, and now sixty three years later in 2020, we're excited to evolve this ancient honor to consist of MLB® teams," stated Mike Thompson, chief advertising officer for Rawlings. "The addition of the Rawlings Gold Glove Team Award will create a new stage of opposition through crowning the excellent of the first-rate protecting group in every league."
The Rawlings Gold Glove Team Awards will make use of a sabermetric mannequin formulated by using the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) recognised as the SABR Defensive Index™ (SDI). The SDI attracts on and aggregates two kinds of present shielding metrics: these derived from batted ball location-based statistics and these amassed from play-by-play accounts. SDI makes use of MLBAM's Statcast, Sports Information Solutions data, and STATS, LLC information as nicely as ordinary information with superior analysis.
"SABR is overjoyed to proceed to aid with the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards and is honored that the SABR Defensive Index used to be depended on with figuring out the premier protective groups in each the American and National Leagues," stated Scott Bush, chief government officer for SABR. "We appear ahead to persevering with our work with Rawlings to well known preeminent protective play."
The inaugural Rawlings Gold Glove Team Award winners will be unveiled alongside the Rawlings Platinum Award™ recipients solely on MLB Network's Emmy Award-winning MLB Tonight on Friday, November 6 at 6:00 p.m. ET, co-hosted through Stephen Nelson, Dan Plesac and Ron Darling.
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