We come to the end of this MLB Monday miniseries lowlighting poor Gold Glove voting, with the current decade—which is not complete yet, of course. We only have half of it in the books, so we will isolate whatever we see here as “poor voting” and serve it to you on the proverbial silver platter … but most of these guys don’t deserve a participation platter. Again, we see improvement in voting now, too. Good!

Here are the worst NL GG winners of the last five seasons, in reverse order, and we only have a Top 3:

3. Anthony Rizzo, 1B, 2020 (0.0 dWAR): A repeat offender from the prior decade, this was the third straight GG vote he won without finishing in positive-value territory. This one came in the Covid year, so we’re guessing the voters just went with someone convenient, even if they were just compounding prior mistakes. All these bad choices make us wonder who should have won the GG votes, you know? Hmmm.

2. Paul Goldschmidt, 1B, 2021 (-0.1 dWAR): Also a prior member of this “club” from the 2010s, he’d won two GG votes in between the bad ones of 2013 and 2021 that were “deserved” somewhat. So, why did the voters come back to him in this season?! This was a fourth consecutive negative-value glove year, so it’s not like he improved, really, since his last GG vote win in 2017. His best offensive season since 2018, probably …

1. Ian Happ, LF, 2023 (-0.4 dWAR): This was the second GG vote win in a stretch of three consecutive, and this was the only one which was undeserved. He wrapped a combined 1.4 dWAR around this stinker of a season in the field. But … drumroll, please … this was his best offensive-value year ever, so once again, too many voters falling for that age-old trap. And, still, for his career, he is a -0.5 dWAR defender. Go figure.

[Editor’s Note: We next will go back to the 1950s and start all over again with the individuals who truly got robbed of winning a Gold Glove by clueless voters. For every mediocre/bad winner, there was some guy out there doing amazing stuff and not getting any love for it. We live to right the wrongs of the past, you know.]