Gold Glove Award

... well, if we're too left-handed heavy, are you? I mean like, it, it's just one of those things like you're gonna have to trade off something, and I would rather trade off being a little bit too left-handed heavy than trade off the defense, which is by just about any metric you want to use, last in the league or bottom five in the league.

Uh, and, and that's with Cole Young probably deserving to win the Gold Glove at second base this year.

So-

Yeah

His plate discipline has been solid.

He plays perfectly fine defense in right field, Gold Glove caliber defense in right field.

He's a good base runner.

There's a lot to still like from Sal Frelich.

That's how good I think history will remember him.

Not just because of the Gold Gloves, of course, but because of the performance.

And the reason I felt 21st century debutants was a nice cutoff is 'cause we really have defensive metrics going back to 2002 and 2003.

When I think of Nolan Arenado at his very best, I think his...

Mm-hmm

... of the baseball card than Salvador Perez.

'Cause [laughs] in his Zoom background he has, he has the Gold Gloves.

He, he won a World Series MVP.

He only walked 31 times all year, but he, I think he won the Rookie of the Year really handily.

He won the Gold Glove.

He actually beat out Jerry Kuzman of the Mets that year for Rookie of the Year.

Yeah.

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So, look, I think that as a group, the biggest component, the identity of the Cubs is their defense.

I mean, I think that there's a chance that left, center, and right, third, short, second, and first, all of them realistically could be Gold Glove finalists.

All seven of those guys.

If there's a guy offensively that probably still doesn't get enough attention at, say, a Suzuki...

Oh, wow.

Cubs manager Craig Council said today at Wrigley Field, after the Gold Glove shortstop completes a short rehab assignment with AAA Iowa.

So he had initially the estimate wasn't for him to come back for the Braves.

I

He's been great, and he's a great person too.

Just before we were talking, you guys were taking ground balls.

What's it like taking ground balls next to or after Mikel Garcia, a guy that is a major league gold glover?

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

Definitely a cool experience.