MLB unveiled the Gold Glove Award finalists this morning over on X, The Everything Evil app but also took the time to compile the list in a post on their main site. This year, two San Francisco Giants have entered the finalists round: Logan Webb and Patrick Bailey.

Bailey should come as no surprise. He’s one of the more valuable players in all of baseball simply because of his defense. If you drop the threshold for plate appearances, he tops the leaderboard for defensive value, according to FanGraphs. By the SABR organization’s SABR Defensive Index (SDI) rating, he’s just third in the NL, behind Fernando Tatis Jr. and Ke’Bryan Hayes and you can safely assume that’s because of playing time. The two ahead of him played in 20 and 17 more games, respectively. I mention the SDI number because

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