#patrick-bailey

#patrick-bailey

Of the two, Bailey likely has the better odds of taking home the hardware simply because he was the most valuable defender in baseball, according to Baseball Savant's Fielding Run Value metric. Bailey's Fielding Run Value of +31 was the most in a single season since the metric started being recorded in 2018. The previous record belonged to, coincidentally, Bailey and Nick Ahmed, who both had seasons where they had a Fielding Run Value of +28.

"Everybody's probably for it at this point," said manager Bob Melvin. "You saw how many misses there were in spring training and there's so much information now that, like anything they've done here recently, they're trying to get it right and make it better."