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2025 Fielding Bible Awards Voting

A look at who voted for whom in this year's Fielding Bible Awards

Mark Simon 10.23.2025

2025 Fielding Bible Award winners - Defensive Player of the Year, Patrick Bailey, Defensive Team of the Year- Chicago Cubs, 1B- Matt Olson, 2B- Nico Hoerner, 3B- Ke'Bryan Hayes, SS- Mookie Betts, LF- Steven Kwan, CF- Ceddanne Rafaela, RF- Fernando Tatis Jr., C- Patrick Bailey, P-Max Fried, Multi-Position- Ernie Clement

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The 2025 Fielding Bible Awards Winners

Our 20th annual honoring of the best defensive players in baseball.

Mark Simon 10.23.2025

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2025 Defensive Team of the Year: Chicago Cubs

The Cubs entered the season knowing they had a pretty good defensive team. And they lived up to the hype.

Mark Simon 10.23.2025

Patrick Bailey, squatting in his catching position, looks off to the side.

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Q&A: Defensive Player of the Year- Patrick Bailey

The best pitch framer in baseball was voted as the best defensive player this year as well.

Mark Simon 10.23.2025

Steven Kwan fully extends to make a diving catch in left field

2025 MLBDefenseJohn Dewan's Stat of the Week

Stat of the Week: Fielding Bible Awards Preview Part II

In this article we look at outfielders, pitchers, and multi-position players, as well as Defensive Player of the Year and Team of the Year.

Mark Simon 10.22.2025

Ke'Bryan Hayes prepares to make a throw from third base at Dodgers Stadium

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Stat of the Week: Fielding Bible Awards Preview Part I

The Awards will be announced later this month. This part of our preview looks at the contenders at catcher and the infield

Mark Simon 10.22.2025

Jeff Mathis stands in the dugout with his chest protector on but his catcher's mask off

Defense

Fielding Bible Awards History: Jeff Mathis Won by Doing a Lot in Limited Time

Mathis values his 2018 season a little differently than others.

Mark Simon 10.21.2025

Mariners shortstop Brendan Ryan turns a double play over Angels runner Vernon Wells, who is sliding right into him

Defense

Fielding Bible Awards History: Brendan Ryan Put Himself in the Best Position to Win

The Mariners shortstop never won a Gold Glove Award, but his Fielding Bible Award carries great weight.

Mark Simon 10.21.2025

2025 MLBJohn Dewan's Stat of the Week

Stat of the Week: Playoff Defenders To Watch

There are 10 players in this year's postseason who had at least 15 Defensive Runs Saved. We run through them.

Mark Simon 09.29.2025

BaseballDefense

Stat of the Week: Minor League Defensive Standouts

BY MARK SIMON In addition to tracking Defensive Runs Saved for major league players, we calculate it for minor leaguers as well. These numbers can be challenging to interpret because we use major league out probabilities as a basis for comparison. As such, because most minor leaguers are worse defenders…

Mark Simon 09.25.2025