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Blue Jays: How Andrés Giménez stacks up against other nominees for Gold Glove at second base
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Ryley Delaney
Oct 23, 2025, 14:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 23, 2025, 06:06 EDT
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Andrés Giménez is looking to win his fourth consecutive American League Gold Glove at second base.
Since 2022, the Toronto Blue Jays’ second baseman has won the Gold Glove at the keystone and has once again been nominated for the award. This season, Luis Rengifo of the Los Angeles Angels and Marcus Semien of the Texas Rangers join him as nominees.
Let’s see how Giménez stacks up against his competition for the award!

Giménez’s numbers

Gimémez signed with the New York Mets in the 2015 International Free Agency and made his debut with the team in 2020, but was sent to the Cleveland Guardians for Francisco Lindor before the start of the 2021 season.
The second baseman became a regular in the big leagues in 2022, the same season in which he had his best offensive season, finishing with a 141 wRC+. That season, Giménez won his first Gold Glove and even finished sixth in American League MVP voting.
In 2023, Giménez won the Gold Glove for second base and picked up his first Platinum Glove, given to the best defensive fielder in their respective league. After winning another Gold Glove in 2024, Giménez was traded in December of the same season.
Giménez never regained his 2022 form with the bat, but he’s still the best defensive second baseman in the American League. Despite missing a sizable chunk of the 2025 season, Giménez finished with 9 Defensive Runs Saved and 10 Outs Above Average in 719.2 innings at the position.
That’s Gold Glove worthy, considering it’s the best DRS and OAA in the American League, but it’s far worse than his last two seasons, when he averaged 21 DRS and 18.5 OAA.
It would be shocking if Giménez doesn’t win his fourth consecutive award, but let’s take a look at how he stacks up against the competition.

Rengifo and Semien’s numbers

The last second baseman to win the American League Gold Glove for second base not named Andrés Giménez is former Blue Jay, Marcus Semien. In fact, Semien won the award with the Blue Jays in 2021 thanks to 11 DRS and 6 OAA.
It’s unlikely he’ll win the award in 2025, as his 5 DRS and 7 OAA show a decline from last season. However, he logged 1108.1 innings at the keystone, the seventh-most innings at the position, and the most of the three players nominated.
Rengifo certainly won’t win the award.  His 5 DRS and 4 OAA were solid, but he played just 585.1 innings at second base, 23rd most in the league. He’s still a great defender at the position, but he’ll likely finish third in voting.
Expect Giménez to win the award when it’s announced in early November.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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