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Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation
(NYSE: JAH), announced today during the Society for American Baseball Research
’s annual SABR Analytics Conference in Phoenix a new collaboration with
SABR. This collaboration will add a new sabermetric-based component to the
Rawlings Gold Glove Award® and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™ selection
processes. This continues Rawlings’ recent amplification and expansion of
the Rawlings Gold Glove Award platform that started three years ago.
As part of the multi-year collaboration beginning with the 2013 season, SABR
will develop an expanded statistical resource guide that will accompany the
Rawlings Gold Glove Award ballots sent to major league-level managers and
coaches each year. In addition, SABR will immediately establish a new
Fielding Research Committee tasked to develop a proprietary new defensive
analytic called the SABR Defensive Index™, or SDI™. The SDI will serve as
an “apples-to-apples” metric to help determine the best defensive players
in baseball exclusively for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings
Platinum Glove Award selection processes. The collaboration also installs
SABR as the presenting sponsor of the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award.
“The Rawlings Gold Glove Award is one of the most iconic awards in all of
sports, and has continued to evolve throughout its storied history,” said
Kurt Hunzeker, senior director of brand marketing for St. Louis-based
Rawlings. “By marrying the ‘art of fielding’ with the ‘science of
baseball,’ our new collaboration with SABR only cements the Rawlings Gold
Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award as the industry standards
honoring defensive excellence at the highest level of baseball.”
Since its inception in 1957, the Rawlings Gold Glove Award voting process has
included national sportswriters, a secret players-only ballot, and the
current system where each manager and up to six (6) coaches on his staff vote
from a pool of qualified players in their respective league, but not for
players on their own team.
Beginning in 2013, the managers/coaches vote will constitute a majority of
the Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners’ selection tally, with the new SDI
comprising the remainder of the overall total. The exact breakdown of the
selection criteria will be announced once the SDI is created later this
summer.
“SABR has a long history of being at the forefront of the sabermetrics
movement,” said Vince Gennaro, president of SABR. “We are proud to bring
our expertise to bear in the selection of future Rawlings Gold Glove Award
winners, and to be a driving force behind the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award.”
In 2011, Rawlings incorporated the following components into its Rawlings
Gold Glove Award selection process: a new resource guide with advanced
metrics and player eligibility parameters, the separation of the three
outfield positions to accurately reward the best defenders at each specific
outfield position, the announcement of finalists at each position, and the
introduction of the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award to honor the best defender
in each League among the Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners in each season.
The SDI’s ability to accurately compare players from different positions
will help determine the updated Rawlings Platinum Glove Award presented by
SABR. Fans will continue to have a voice during this process, once the newest
class of Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners is announced in November.
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina and Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre won
their respective league’s Rawlings Platinum Glove Award in each of the past
two seasons.
For more information, please visit Rawlings.com or SABR.org.
About the Rawlings Gold Glove Award®
The Rawlings Gold Glove Award® is a registered trademark owned by Rawlings
Sporting Goods Company, Inc. The award is correctly identified as the
Rawlings Gold Glove Award. The name should not be shortened, abbreviated or
otherwise misused. Proper identification of this service mark using the
registration symbol and the Rawlings name is important to protect the
integrity of the program and perpetuate this worthy tradition. For more
information, please visit www.rawlingsgoldglove.com.
自1957年开始设立并负责颁发金手套奖的运动用品制造商 Rawlings 公司宣布，
自2013年起将与 SABR (Society for American Baseball Reserch) 合作，
由SABR设计出一套全新的防守统计数据，名为SABR防守指数(简称SDI)，
未来的金手套奖评选，虽然仍会保留教练票选的制度，但也会将SDI纳入考量。
不过目前这个守备数据是如何计算，以及数据与教练票选在评选中各占多少的比率，
目前都还未透露细节，预计要到夏天时才会正式公布。
当然，这样的改变是否真的有效，也都要届时才能有更明确的结论。