MIAMI – Miami’s Javier Sanoja tonight was named the winner of the Rawlings Gold Glove award for National League utility players, as announced by Rawlings on MLB Network.
The 23-year-old rookie, who made his first Opening Day roster with Miami in 2025, combined to post a .988 fielding pct. (3 E/269 TC) in 785.0 defensive innings across seven different positions, including 41 games (26 starts) at third base, 35 games (16 starts) in left field, 34 games (20 starts) at second base, 14 games (10 starts) in center field, 10 games (nine starts) at shortstop, eight games at pitcher, and one game at first base.
The 5-foot-7, Maracay, Ven. native saw the majority of work between third base (255.2 innings) and second base (208.2 innings), accumulating a total of nine defensive runs saved at these positions per FanGraphs.
Sanoja is the ninth different Marlin to be named a Rawlings Gold Glove award winner, joining catcher Charles Johnson (1995-97), first baseman Derrek Lee (2003), second baseman Luis Castillo (2003-05), third baseman Mike Lowell (2005), pitcher Mark Buehrle (2012), left fielder Christian Yelich (2014), second baseman Dee Strange-Gordon (2015), and left fielder Marcell Ozuna (2017).
Sanoja also joins catcher Charles Johnson in 1995 as the only two rookies in Franchise history to win a Rawlings Gold Glove award.
He is the first Marlins player to win a Rawlings Gold Glove as a utility player since the inception of the award in 2022, and the fourth National League player to take home the honors, following Brendan Donovan (STL, 2022), Ha-seong Kim (SD, 2023), and Jared Triolo (PIT, 2024).
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