Saturday, November 7, 2026

26 times from 1962-2011 a player led his league in OBP and won a Gold Glove in the same season but it has not been done since 2011

I used bases.chat, the AI program created by SABR member Ted Ingram, to find all of these cases. I wonder why it has not been done since 2011? After the table I will list any players since 2011 who led their league in OBP and won a Gold Glove, but not in the same season.

Name

Year

Lg.

OBP

Pos.

Mickey Mantle

1962

AL

0.486

OF

Carl Yastrzemski

1963

AL

0.418

OF

Ron Santo

1964

NL

0.398

3B

Carl Yastrzemski

1965

AL

0.395

OF

Willie Mays

1965

NL

0.398

OF

Ron Santo

1966

NL

0.412

3B

Carl Yastrzemski

1967

AL

0.418

OF

Carl Yastrzemski

1968

AL

0.426

OF

Joe Morgan

1974

NL

0.427

2B

Joe Morgan

1975

NL

0.466

2B

Joe Morgan

1976

NL

0.444

2B

Fred Lynn

1979

AL

0.423

OF

Keith Hernandez

1980

NL

0.408

1B

Mike Schmidt

1981

NL

0.435

3B

Dwight Evans

1982

AL

0.402

OF

Mike Schmidt

1982

NL

0.403

3B

Mike Schmidt

1983

NL

0.399

3B

Eddie Murray

1984

AL

0.41

1B

Barry Bonds

1991

NL

0.41

OF

Barry Bonds

1992

NL

0.456

OF

Barry Bonds

1993

NL

0.458

OF

Larry Walker

1997

NL

0.452

OF

Larry Walker

1999

NL

0.458

OF

Albert Pujols

2006

NL

0.431

1B

Joe Mauer

2009

AL

0.444

C

Joey Votto

2011

NL

0.416

1B

Here are the players who have led their league in OBP at least once since 2011. Each line first shows when they led in OBP then all the years they won a Gold Glove Award. I included GGs before 2012. Mauer and Votto are also among the players who did them both in the same year as seen in the table above

Mauer   OBP 2012   GG 8-9-10
 
DJ LeMahieu   OBP 2020   GG 14-17-18-22
 
Vladimir Guerrero    OBP 2021   GG 2022

Freeman   OBP 2022   GG 2018

Yelich   OBP 2019   GG 2014

Votto   OBP 2012-13-16-17-18   GG 2011
 
McCutchen   OBP 2014   GG 2012

The only close case is Vladimir Guerrero who won a GG a year after leading in OBP.