Twice as nice! Dingler repeats as Gold Glove winner

Detroit Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler has won his second consecutive American League Rawlings Gold Glove Award, announced on Sunday. Dingler joins Ivan Rodriguez, Lance Parrish, and Bill Freehan as Tigers catchers who have secured back-to-back Gold Glove honors. He is also only the seventh catcher in Major League history to earn the award in each of his first two full seasons.

Dingler dominated defensive metrics this season, leading all of MLB with a plus-17 fielding run value and plus-9 catcher framing runs. He also paced American League catchers with 995 2/3 innings caught across 113 starts, having already captured his first Fielding Bible Award and an All-Star selection earlier in the year.