Yankees' Jose Trevino, Mets' Tomas Nido among finalists for Gold Glove Award
New York Yankees catcher Jose Trevino looks on during an MLB baseball workout at Yankee Stadium on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
The Yankees’ Jose Trevino and the Mets’ Tomas Nido caught some love for their high-end catching Thursday.
Both were named Gold Glove Award finalists at the position in their leagues, Rawlings announced, highlighting a batch of six New York players who are up for the annual defensive honors.
Nido was the Mets’ only finalist, but the Yankees had four others, including pitcher Jameson Taillon, first baseman Anthony Rizzo and leftfielder Andrew Benintendi. Infielder DJ LeMahieu also is a finalist for the utility Gold Glove, which is new this year, created to honor standouts at multiple positions.
Winners will be revealed Nov. 1 in a 5 p.m. one-hour special on ESPN.
For Nido and Trevino, the recognition comes at the end of their expectation-exceeding seasons. Nido had been a career backup but wound up playing in 98 games, absorbing more starts because of James McCann’s poor performance and injuries. Trevino, similarly, looked as if he would be a co-starter when the Yankees acquired him in an April 2 trade with the Rangers, but he got hot early and became an All-Star.
Nido is up against Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto and Atlanta’s Travis d’Arnaud. Put another way, this group of three is composed of the Mets catcher who won playing time from McCann, the catcher the Mets could have signed before they added McCann two years ago, and the catcher the Mets cut 23 sporadic at-bats into his return from Tommy John surgery in 2019.
Trevino’s fellow finalists are the Mariners’ Cal Raleigh and A’s Sean Murphy.
Alongside Taillon are Jose Berrios of the Blue Jays and Shane Bieber of the Guardians. Rizzo is joined by the Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Twins’ Luis Arraez. Benintendi, recognized after spending most of the season with the Royals, is up against Brandon Marsh of the Angels/Phillies and Steven Kwan of the Guardians.
LeMahieu, a three-time Gold Glover at second base before signing with the Yankees, was basically an everyday player without an everyday home in the field, making at least 35 starts at third, second and first. The other utility finalists are second baseman/outfielder Whit Merrifield (Royals/Blue Jays) and second baseman/third baseman/shortstop/rightfielder Luis Rengifo (Angels).
Rawlings determines the Gold Glove winners by a vote of managers and coaches in September, with an advanced defensive metric created by the Society for American Baseball Research also factored in. Rawlings itself will select the utility winner, with the help of another SABR-made fielding statistic.
Tim Healey is the Mets beat writer for Newsday. Born on Long Island and raised in Connecticut, Tim has previously worked for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Boston Globe and MLB.com. He is also the author of “Hometown Hardball,” a book about minor league baseball in the northeast.
