The 2025 Gold Glove Award finalists were revealed Wednesday morning, and to no one’s surprise, the Toronto Blue Jays were heavily featured.

In total, five Blue Jays players were nominated by Rawlings Baseball, which tallies the votes from managers and coaches of all 30 MLB clubs. Only the Chicago Cubs earned more nominations with six.

Those nominated from Toronto’s roster include catcher Alejandro Kirk, first basemen Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Ty France, second baseman Andrés Giménez and third baseman Ernie Clement (also nominated for the utility Gold Glove).

Kirk, who remains in pursuit of his first-career Gold Glove award, is competing against Boston’s Carlos Narváez and Detroit’s Dillon Dingler. But his chances of coming away victorious seem fairly high.

The 26-year-old is one of baseball’s most elite catchers, ranking in the 99th percentile of the majors in fielding run value (22), trailing only fellow backstop Patrick Bailey (31) for top spot in the sport. He also finished tied for third in defensive runs saved (nine) among big-league catchers, behind Narváez (10) and Bailey (19).

Few can compare to Kirk’s elite pitch framing and blocking skills, though, as he placed in the 100th percentile in blocks above average (21) and 98th in catcher framing runs (16) — trailing only Bailey (25) in the latter of those metrics.

Guerrero, who captured his lone Gold Glove award in 2022, recorded eight defensive runs saved this season — tied for fourth-most among qualified major league first basemen (min. 500 innings), behind France (nine), Carlos Santana (12) — the third nominee alongside those two — and Matt Olson (17).

Some of the more advanced defensive metrics weren’t as kind to Vladdy, though, as evidenced by his minus-two outs above average and minus-one FRV.

France, meanwhile, ranked in the 96th percentile in OAA (10) — good for first at his position. He also earned a plus-seven FRV, placing behind only Olson’s plus-eight.

Giménez, a three-time Gold Glove winner with the Cleveland Guardians (2022-24), has excelled in the field during his first season with Toronto and placed inside the top three in DRS (nine), OAA (10) and FRV (seven) among major league second basemen.

While this won’t help the 27-year-old’s case at second, he’s also done a remarkable job filling in at shortstop since sliding over from second amidst Bo Bichette’s absence due to a PCL strain in his left knee.

Clement has played tremendous defence all year long, regardless of where he’s been positioned. Third base is where he’s done most of his damage in ’25, posting plus-11 DRS (fourth-highest at his position), plus-six OAA and plus-four FRV.

Kansas City’s Maikel Garcia — who led all AL third basemen in DRS (13), OAA (18) and FRV (14) this season — likely poses the biggest threat to Clement at the hot corner. However, his versatility and effectiveness at first and second base, as well as shortstop, should make him a leading favourite in the utility category against Houston’s Mauricio Dubón and Cleveland’s Daniel Schneemann.

Daulton Varsho, ineligible for consideration amongst this year’s class after only logging 550.1 innings in the outfield amidst an injury-plagued campaign, was the Blue Jays’ lone Gold Glove winner last season.

This year’s winners will be announced for each position on Nov. 2.