Raleigh, Turang win 2024 Rawlings Platinum Glove Awards, presented by SABR
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 — Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., announced the winners of the Rawlings Platinum Glove™ and Team Defense Awards for the 2024 season. Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners and Brice Turang of the Milwaukee Brewers each won a Rawlings Platinum Glove Award, presented by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). In addition, the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers were named as this year’s recipients of the Team Defense Award.
The winners were announced on Friday, November 8 at the 2024 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Ceremony held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
The Rawlings Platinum Glove Award winners are determined by combining votes based on an adjusted SABR Defensive Index™ (SDI) for each of the ten Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners in each league and from baseball fan votes worldwide.
Voting for the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award began at the conclusion of the 2024 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Announcement Show that aired on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight on November 3 and ended on November 7. Fans took to Rawlings.com to voice who they thought was the best defender in each League.
The Rawlings Team Defense Award, in its fifth year, utilizes an SDI that draws on and aggregates two types of existing defensive metrics: those derived from batted ball location-based data and those collected from play-by-play accounts. SDI utilizes MLBAM’s Statcast, Sports Information Solutions data, and STATS, LLC data as well as traditional statistics with advanced analysis.
Both the Rawlings Platinum and Team Defense Awards will be presented to the athletes and their teams, respectively, at games to take place early in the 2025 regular season.
- Click here to view the final results of the SABR Defensive Index for the 2024 season
- Check out the winners of the 2024 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards here
- Learn more about the SABR Defensive Index’s role in the Gold Glove process at SABR.org/SDI
About the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award®
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About Rawlings
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About SABR™
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering research and disseminating the history and record of baseball. Founded in 1971, SABR has more than 7,500 members worldwide and has established itself as a vibrant baseball community and a premier distributor of ground-breaking baseball information. SABR features 83 chapters and 33 research committees, and produces three annual publications — two editions of The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime — in addition to other print and e-books. SABR also hosts annual events, including the National Convention each summer, and the SABR Analytics Conference in March in Phoenix.
Originally published: November 8, 2024. Last Updated: November 8, 2024.