Pitchers are fielders too!

Logan Webb doesn’t take himself too seriously as a defender. He joked after the news broke that he had received his first Gold Glove Award by saying “if I can win it, anybody can win it.”

Webb, who relies on his catcher to finesse a lot of border-line pitches or the four infielders behind him to mop up ground-ball after ground-ball, gets it. He knows what good defense looks like, and what he does really doesn’t compare.

Fielding is something more often forced upon pitchers than anything else. Even for a “blue-collar” arm like Webb, compared to the rest of the position players, pitchers are undoubtedly the divas of the diamond. Everything in baseball moves through them — and they know it. They are demi-gods burdened with a sacred responsibility. Any task other than delivering the white or