Jared Triolo wins 2024 Gold Glove Award with Pirates

Jared Triolo arrived at Pirates Spring Training this year with a variety of gloves for different positions, not knowing where his best fit would be to make the team. It turned out he needed all of those gloves, because he bounced around the diamond all season.

When he goes to camp next year, he’ll have another glove to his name: a Gold Glove.

Triolo was named the National League Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner for the utility spot on Sunday night, edging out Kiké Hernández of the Dodgers and Brendan Donovan of the Cardinals. It is Triolo’s first Gold Glove.

Triolo broke camp as the team’s everyday second baseman, and while he had only 19 starts as a professional at that position entering the season, he quickly looked like a natural there, with 6 defensive runs saved in 374 2/3 innings at his new home.

Offensive struggles and the emergence of Nick Gonzales put Triolo in a utility role for the middle part of the season, and he spent time at every infield position. Triolo’s best defensive play might have been as a right fielder, though, as he made a diving grab of a Jake McCarthy bloop to send the Pirates and Diamondbacks into extra innings on July 28. It was Triolo’s first professional inning at the position.

Triolo wound up starting the majority of games at his native third base down the stretch when Ke’Bryan Hayes went on the injured list. His defensive contributions at the hot corner were valued at 2 outs above average and two runs prevented, according to Baseball Savant.

Among National League infielders with at least 300 innings played, Triolo’s .995 fielding percentage as a second baseman was tied for the best, and his .985 fielding percentage as a third baseman was tops.

In addition to his innings at second, Triolo played 527 innings at third base, 66 innings at shortstop, 41 innings at first and two innings in right field this season.

Triolo is the third Pirate to win a Gold Glove over the past four seasons. Catcher Jacob Stallings won in 2021, and Hayes won in ’23. Triolo is the first Pirate to win a Gold Glove in his first full Major League season.