SEATTLE -- Cal Raleigh has bigger things to worry about than the Rawlings Gold Glove Award announcement that landed on Wednesday morning, with his Mariners just two wins away from advancing in this American League Championship Series against the Blue Jays.

Yet Raleigh’s absence from the list of three finalists among AL catchers spurred intrigue, given that the Mariners’ backstop won the Platinum Glove Award last year for being the AL’s top overall defender.

Rawlings announced that Detroit's Dillon Dingler, Toronto’s Alejandro Kirk and Boston’s Carlos Narváez were the AL’s finalists at catcher. Separately, Seattle’s Julio Rodríguez was among the AL’s three finalists in center field for the second time (2023) as he looks to win his first Gold Glove.

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