Congratulations to Buster on winning the 2016 Fielding Bible Award for best...

Congratulations to Buster on winning the 2016 Fielding Bible Award for best catcher in MLB for his 2nd year in a row. This is a relatively new award, having been around for 11 years now. Unlike the Golden Glove, these awards are not given to one player in each league. One award is given to the overall best player at each position, regardless of league. They are based on sabermetrics (remember the movie Money Ball? They successfully used sabermetrics to rebuild the A's with little money, using lesser known players), and awarded by the Society for American Baseball Research.

Here's what they had to say about BP this year: "Buster Posey excels at every aspect of catching. There are five categories of defense that are measured in Defensive Runs Saved (Pitcher Handling, Controlling the Running Game, Handling Bunts, Good Plays and Misplays, and Getting Extra Strikes). Posey's MLB-leading total of 23 Defensive Runs Saved breaks down with an above-average number in each one of these categories with 1, 2, 4, 5, and 11 runs saved by category, respectively. Fielding Bible voters acknowledged Posey with a first place vote on every ballot giving him his second straight Fielding Bible Award." As always, very well deserved Mr. Posey! Brandon Crawford was just one point short of winning the best overall shortstop, but we know better!