MLB Monday returns on Labor Day with this look at the 2010s: our Gold Glove analysis for each decade. This list is full of players who labored tirelessly without being rewarding properly for it (in many cases), and isn’t that really the point of this holiday? To celebrate the American worker? Indeed. Too bad we live in end-stage capitalism where corruption and greed have ruined so many good things about the United States.

But we digress … enjoy the read today on your (hopefully) day off!

Welington Castillo, C: For a guy who spelled his first name oddly, he did decently with the glove (yes, we know that is a non sequitur). Only in his final MLB season did he actually post negative dWAR, although his career mark over 10 seasons was only 5.2 dWAR. In 2013, specifically, he had his best defensive season by far with 2.3 dWAR, good enough for ninth overall in the majors—yet just third in the NL for catchers. Doh!

Zack Cozart, SS: In a nine-year career, he compiled 8.8 dWAR and had three different seasons of at least 1.6 dWAR—and two different seasons of at least 2.1 dWAR (2012, 2014). He did make the All-Star team in 2017, but that was a year where his dWAR was under 1.0 for the campaign as he posted a career-high 4.7 oWAR. At age 31, though, that season was a huge outlier in his MLB tenure at the plate. Alas, no GG vote wins here.

Jhonny Peralta, SS: Talk about guys who spelled their names weirdly! In 15 MLB seasons, mostly at shortstop, he compiled 5.8 dWAR total, so he was a slightly above-average glove man. His only season above 1.0 dWAR came in 2014 at age 32 when he put up 2.4 dWAR on the way to a career-high 5.8 WAR mark overall. He wasn’t even an All Star in that campaign, although he did collect some MVP votes, strangely.

Leonys Martín, CF: How is this for highway robbery? He posted an AL-best 2.3 dWAR in 2014 at age 26, along with a career-high 2.6 oWAR that year—and did not win the Gold Glove. The big issue may have been his team’s last-place finish after peaking with World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011, but still … he may have taken it personally, because his entire career went downhill after this season, sadly. That sucked.

Kevin Pillar, CF: Still active at age 36 this season, he compiled a combined 7.3 dWAR across three straight seasons (2015-2017) without winning a Gold Glove. How is that possible?! He never even made the All-Star team. His club even won the AL East Division in 2015 and reached the AL Championship Series in 2016, but he got no glove love from the voters. Oddly, he earned MVP votes in 2019 while posting negative-0.9 dWAR.

Adeiny Hechavarría, SS: Basically a zero with the bat across nine MLB seasons (76 OPS+), he certainly stuck around for as long as he did due to his prowess in the field. Yet his career dWAR (5.8) suggests he was just above average. He peaked in 2015 with 2.1 dWAR and followed it up with 1.6 dWAR the next year. However, his weak bat and the mediocrity of his team certainly prevented him from winning a GG vote.

Addison Russell, SS: A first-round pick in 2012, he lasted only five years in the majors. Yet he earned 9.1 dWAR in those five campaigns, to go along with just 5.4 oWAR—explaining his short career (not really), although we have seen a lot worse players have a lot longer careers, of course. He was an All Star in 2016 for the World Series champions, while posting 2.5 dWAR and a career-best 2.2 oWAR, all without a Gold Glove.

Adam Eaton, CF: A somewhat overrated fielder, he really only had two good defensive seasons (2014, 2016)—and then lived off that reputation for a long time. In those two campaigns, he posted a combined 4.1 dWAR, and in his other eight seasons, he managed to “earn” negative-4.4 dWAR. When his team won the World Series in 2019, he was a defensive liability (-0.8 dWAR). He’s an intriguing case study, to say the least.

JaCoby Jones, CF: He has to be one of the more anonymous guys we’ve uncovered in this ongoing study. Over six seasons in the majors, he managed to compile just 1.0 WAR overall. But in 2018 alone, he put up 2.1 dWAR without winning a Gold Glove. At age 26, though, he was a negative offensive force, and his team won just 64 games. Therefore, he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a Gold Glove. So be it.

Víctor Robles, CF: Another member of that 2019 World Series-winning team, as a rookie, he basically had his best season (2.0 oWAR, 2.5 dWAR)—and it was all downhill from there. Interestingly, he still is active in the sport, having gotten some ABs with the Seattle Mariners this year. Overall, at this point, though, he has compiled a mere 3.7 dWAR, too, as his game just never improved from that impressive rookie campaign.