10-15-24 – By Ethan Smith – @mvp_EtHaN on Twitter
Jared Triolo has been named a finalist for the National League Utility Gold Glove Award, given out by Rawlings Baseball every season to represent the best defensive players by position.
Triolo is a finalist alongside Kike Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Brendan Donovan of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Per Fielding Bible, Triolo ended the season with seven defensive runs saved, which ranked third on the Pirates roster behind Isiah Kiner-Falefa(15) and Ke’Bryan Hayes(10), with Hayes winning a Gold Glove in 2023 at third base and Kiner-Falefa, who won the award in 2020.
As far as the other contenders for the award alongside Triolo, Donovan ended his season with St. Louis with a zero defensive runs saved metric, while Hernandez had five defensive runs saved with the Dodgers during the 2024 regular season.
Triolo played five different positions for the Pirates this season, logging 500-plus innings at third base, 374.2 innings at second base and limited time at shortstop, first base and right field. Per MLB.com, Triolo was credited with three errors on the season and had no lower than a .985 fielding percentage at any of the five positions he played, including a perfect fielding percentage in right field, first base and shortstop.
Although Triolo has never won a MLB Gold Glove Award, he is no stranger to defensive awards, as he was named the MiLB Gold Glove Award winner in 2021 for his defensive prowess with the Pirates High-A affiliate, the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
The previous National League Utility Gold Glove Award winners were Ha-Seong Kim of the San Diego Padres and Brendan Donovan, who’s looking to win his second Gold Glove as a utility defender, with the distinction for utility defenders to win the award not being introduced until 2022.
If Triolo were to win the award, he would become the 21st Pittsburgh Pirates player to win a Gold Glove and just the sixth infielder to do so, joining Hayes, Bill Mazeroski, Gene Alley, Jay Bell and Jose Lind.
The Gold Glove Award winners will be announced by Rawlings on November 3.
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