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Olson wins the prestigious award for the fourth time in his career and the first time since joining the Braves Baseball’s awards season already got going earlier on Thursday when The Sporting News announced their award winners for the 2024 season. Now, it’s time for The Fielding Bible to announce their winners and Atlanta’s got a representative here as well.
For the first time since Max Fried won one of these awards back in 2020, the Atlanta Braves have seen one of their players win a Fielding Bible Award. This time, it’s Matt Olson who has received one of the highest honors a baseball player can receive for their defensive efforts.
2024 Fielding Bible Awards1B Winner - Matt Olson, @Braves 4th career Fielding Bible AwardLed all first basemen in Defensive Runs Saved pic.twitter.com/vVK0R4tnpG— SIS_Baseball (@sis_baseball) October 24, 2024
As far as Olson goes, this is old hat for him. This is now the fourth time that he’s won a Fielding Bible Award but it is his first time winning it since he won three-in-a-row in 2018, 2019 and 2020. It’s also the first time that he’s won it in a Braves uniform and the eighth time overall that an Atlanta Braves player has won one of these awards. Olson joins Fried in 2020, Andrelton Simmons in 2013, 2014 and 2015, Jason Heyward in 2014 and 2012 and Andruw Jones in 2007 in the exclusive club of Braves players who have won Fielding Bible Awards.
The Fielding Bible had this to say when describing Olson’s exploits in the field for 2024:
Olson led all first basemen with 13 Defensive Runs Saved. After recording 27 and 26 Defensive Misplays & Errors the last two seasons, He cut that number to 19 in 2024. As per usual for him, he also rated well above average on balls hit to his right.
Olson also is highly durable. He led MLB in innings played at first base and has played 162 games in each of the last three seasons.
Here’s a full list of the Fielding Bible Award winners for 2024:
Defensive Player of the Year
Daulton Varsho, TOR
Fielding Bible Positional Awards
C: Patrick Bailey, SF1B: Matt Olson, ATL2B: Andrés Giménez, CLE3B: Matt Chapman, SFSS: Masyn Winn, STLLF: Riley Greene, DETCF: Brenton Doyle, COLRF: Wilyer Abreu, BOSMulti-Position: Daulton Varsho, TORP: Tanner Bibee, CLE
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Olson wins the prestigious award for the fourth time in his career and the first time since joining the Braves Baseball’s awards season already got going earlier on Thursday when The Sporting News announced their award winners for the 2024 season. Now, it’s time for The Fielding Bible to announce their winners and Atlanta’s got a representative here as well.
For the first time since Max Fried won one of these awards back in 2020, the Atlanta Braves have seen one of their players win a Fielding Bible Award. This time, it’s Matt Olson who has received one of the highest honors a baseball player can receive for their defensive efforts.
2024 Fielding Bible Awards1B Winner - Matt Olson, @Braves 4th career Fielding Bible AwardLed all first basemen in Defensive Runs Saved pic.twitter.com/vVK0R4tnpG— SIS_Baseball (@sis_baseball) October 24, 2024
As far as Olson goes, this is old hat for him. This is now the fourth time that he’s won a Fielding Bible Award but it is his first time winning it since he won three-in-a-row in 2018, 2019 and 2020. It’s also the first time that he’s won it in a Braves uniform and the eighth time overall that an Atlanta Braves player has won one of these awards. Olson joins Fried in 2020, Andrelton Simmons in 2013, 2014 and 2015, Jason Heyward in 2014 and 2012 and Andruw Jones in 2007 in the exclusive club of Braves players who have won Fielding Bible Awards.
The Fielding Bible had this to say when describing Olson’s exploits in the field for 2024:
Olson led all first basemen with 13 Defensive Runs Saved. After recording 27 and 26 Defensive Misplays & Errors the last two seasons, He cut that number to 19 in 2024. As per usual for him, he also rated well above average on balls hit to his right.
Olson also is highly durable. He led MLB in innings played at first base and has played 162 games in each of the last three seasons.
Here’s a full list of the Fielding Bible Award winners for 2024:
Defensive Player of the Year
Daulton Varsho, TOR
Fielding Bible Positional Awards
C: Patrick Bailey, SF1B: Matt Olson, ATL2B: Andrés Giménez, CLE3B: Matt Chapman, SFSS: Masyn Winn, STLLF: Riley Greene, DETCF: Brenton Doyle, COLRF: Wilyer Abreu, BOSMulti-Position: Daulton Varsho, TORP: Tanner Bibee, CLE
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