Ranger Suarez is the 2022 Fielding Bible Award winner as MLB’s finest defensive pitcher.
The award has been given out since 2006 by Sports activities Information Options, one of many fundamental sources of publicly obtainable defensive metrics. Suarez is the primary Phillies pitcher to win the award.
As SIS factors out, Suarez led all major-league pitchers this season with 9 Defensive Runs Saved. He additionally didn’t permit a stolen base in his 155⅓ innings, which is partially owed to J.T. Realmuto’s prowess behind the plate. Realmuto caught extra complete runners and at the next price than any catcher within the majors.
Suarez strikes like a cat on the mound, fielding bunts in addition to anybody. None has been extra vital than the play he made on Trent Grisham, who tried to bunt for a success with two males on base within the ninth inning of Sport 5 of the NLCS with the Phillies main by a run. Suarez as an alternative retired Grisham for the twenty sixth out and ended the sport a pitch later, popping Austin Nola as much as proper discipline.
Suarez additionally offers with extra comebackers than simply about any pitcher. His 31 defensive assists led the majors.
He was not one of many three nominees for the Nationwide League Gold Glove Award. Tyler Anderson, Corbin Burnes and Max Fried are the three finalists. Status has quite a bit to do with being nominated for or profitable a Gold Glove, so Suarez might begin gaining consideration subsequent season because the baseball world slowly begins to comprehend how uniquely effectively he fields his place.
He would not actually care, although. He is within the World Sequence and in line to begin Sport 3 at Residents Financial institution Park on Monday.
