(Seidler) Aujourd’hui est le jour annuel où tout le monde découvre que Rawlings distribue désormais des gants d’or presque entièrement basés sur une mesure absolument bizarre appelée « l’indice défensif SABR », qui est un méli-mélo de mesures obsolètes.
today is the annual day when everyone finds out that Rawlings now hands out Gold Gloves almost entirely based on an absolutely bizarre metric called the "SABR defensive index" which is a mish mosh of outdated metrics
— Jarrett Seidler (@jaseidler) October 15, 2024
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Par TomasRoncero
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I would rather have this than a guy in NY winning gold gloves cause he threw the ball jumping.
Line up a dozen baseball sabermetrics guys and each of them will have their own criticisms of different defensive metrics. « Outdated » seems like a strange term to use here since there is so much debate over different metrics in the first place.
Fellow BP contributor (Seidler is one of their top prospects guys) Matthew Trueblood also tweeted [this](https://x.com/MATrueblood/status/1846197573356294454):
>You absolutely should not care about EITHER awards “finalists” in MLB OR Gold Gloves in general. However, if you must, know that Rawlings has a history of just tweeting out the finalists in the order of their finish, and that the tweets today sure aren’t alphabetical.
I’m not gonna bother to fact check this simply because it’d be really funny if Rawlings really was just a bunch of lazy morons who couldn’t bother to put stuff in alphabetical order.
He’s also wrong that its « almost entirely based on » this metric. It only accounts for 25% of the vote, the other 75% of the vote comes from managers and coaches throughout the league who can’t vote for their own players.