Ben and Carlos talk about the finalists for the 2025 gold glove awards and talk about the players’ defensive backgrounds leading up to now. Who were the no-brainer gold glove winners as amateurs, and who are the players who surprise us now that they are? After that the two talk about some of the top minor league candidates to win future gold glove awards. They also talk about 2027 high school catcher Will Brick jumping into the 2026 class and wonder where all the high school catching talent has gone in recent years. Finally they tackle a few listener questions. 

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Time Stamps

• (0:00) Intro
• (2:00) Gold glove nominees
• (4:30) Catchers (Alejandro Kirk and Patrick Bailey)
• (15:20) First base (Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bryce Harper)
• (21:00) Second base (Brice Turang, Xavier Edwards)
• (24:40) Third base (Matt Shaw, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Ryan McMahon)
• (32:00) Shortstop (Corey Seager, Mookie Betts, Bobby Witt Jr.)
• (48:00) Left field (Wyatt Langford, Tyler Soderstrom)
• (52:00) Center field (Pete Crow Armstrong, Ceddanne Rafaela, Jacob Young, Julio Rodriguez)
• (1:02:00) Right field (Fernando Tatis Jr., Sal Frelick, Corbin Carroll)
• (1:07:00) Will Brick and high school catchers
• (1:22:00) Minor league gold glove candidates
• (1:37:00) Grady Emerson & Jacob Lombard vs. Max Clark & Walker Jenkins
• (1:42:00) LSU and Tennessee 2027 recruiting classes

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