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Starling Marte Named Finalist for Gold Glove Award

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Rawlings announced the finalists for the Gold Glove awards on Thursday afternoon and for the third straight year, Starling Marte was named as one of the three finalists for National League left fielders. He is the lone finalist from the Pirates. Marte won his first Gold Glove last season, after losing out to Christian Yelich in 2014. Yelich is up for the award again this season, as is Adam Duvall of the Cincinnati Reds.

Marte played 114 games total in left field this season, seeing 220 fewer innings this year at the position than he did in 2015, so that could hurt his chances. He led all National League outfielders with 17 assists, and he committed four errors. Baseball-Reference has him at 1.3 dWAR for 2016, slightly down from the 2.0 mark he put up last season. Fangraphs had Marte with 17 defensive runs saved, one behind NL leader Jason Heyward.

Winners will be announced on November 8th. Last year the Pirates had three finalists, with Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole joining Marte.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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