DK’s Daily Shot Of Pirates: All that glitters is Jacob Stallings

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Jacob Stallings was great in just about every defensive metric behind the plate this year and was one of the few bright spots for the Pirates this season. With the announcement of his Gold Glove award on Sunday, the game's premier defensive catcher was finally recognized for being precisely that. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.0	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	Hey, here's a hot news flash.
0:40.6	Jacob Stolns is the best defensive catcher in all of Major League Baseball.
0:48.3	And no, we didn't need anybody else to validate that.
0:53.3	Good morning to you.
1:10.2	Good Monday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. And this is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins right where you found this.
1:22.1	The Rawlings Gold Glove for catcher in the National League went to the only player who could have conceivably won it.
1:26.9	That being stallings ahead of Yaddy Malina and whoever, it doesn't matter.
1:33.6	It doesn't matter. Stalling's had 21 defensive runs saved over the course of the year.
1:42.3	There's a lot that goes into that metric,
1:45.3	but all you need to know is that only one other player
1:49.0	at one other position in either league had as many,
1:53.7	and it was Houston shortstop, Carlos Correa,
1:56.9	who's now, of course, a zillion-dollar free agent.
2:00.6	He also had 21.
2:02.2	No one else had that.
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