How Many Gold Gloves Did Yadier Molina Won - T-Tees - Your Answers Await, Life's Questions Unraveled

We still don’t know who will win the 2020 Gold Gloves, but we can say for sure that St. Louis Cardinals veteran Yadier Molina won’t be collecting the 10th of his career.

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The finalists for the 2020 Gold Gloves were announced Thursday, and were notably missing the nine-time winner at catcher:

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That group in particular is intriguing, as it means Molina — who has won the Platinum Glove Award for top overall defender a record four times — has apparently fallen to not being a top-three catcher in his own division.

That didn’t sit well with Molina, who soon posted this on Instagram:

A rough translation of Molina’s post:

Basically, Molina thinks that either MLB or someone else making the decisions is out to prevent a Puerto Rican player from tying Reds great Johnny Bench’s NL-record 10 Gold Gloves at the catching position. Not the MLB record for Gold Gloves at catcher. National League record.

In any other year, that would be a rather silly theory — Bench’s record is more a trivia answer than significant MLB milestone — but it’s outright disprovable this year.

Humans, MLB or other, didn’t pick this year’s Gold Glove finalists

So, prior to 2020, the Gold Gloves were voted on by managers and coaches in each league, with SABR’s Defensive Index factored in since 2013.

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Human voting has long been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, so maybe MLB really could have put its finger on the scales to preserve the legacy of the man currently doing Blue Emu commercials (this idea sounds more ridiculous every time you say it out loud).

However, Rawlings made a change this year.

The glove-makers took the human voting out of Gold Glove qualifications and put the entire responsibility on SABR’s stat, citing the compressed nature of the 2020 season. So unless the Society for American Baseball Research deliberately fudged a stat that has been used to help award four of Molina’s nine Gold Gloves, it’s hard to see where these supposed conspirators could even find oxygen.

And there’s also the fact that Ivan Rodriguez is the actual MLB leader in Gold Gloves at catcher with 13. Like Molina, Rodriguez is Puerto Rican.

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