Minor League Gold Glove Award winners

There are prospects who can flash the leather, and then there are these guys: the cream of the crop. Now they own some hardware for defensive excellence.

Two Top 100 prospects – including baseball's top overall prospect – headlined the nine-player crop of 2024 Minor League Gold Glove Award winners, Rawlings and Minor League Baseball announced on Monday. Nationals top prospect outfielder Dylan Crews (No. 1 overall) and Brewers No. 2 shortstop Cooper Pratt (MLB No. 57) were the Top 100 guys to snag gold at their respective positions, along with six other players ranked on their organizations' Top 30 lists.

“Rawlings is pleased to recognize this year’s group of Gold Glove Award winners and we look forward to following their careers as they climb the ladder to Major League Baseball,” said Mike Thompson, the chief marketing officer for Rawlings. “We are thankful for our long-standing partnership with Minor League Baseball that enables us to annually recognize the 'Finest In The Field.'"

Crews, the second overall pick in the 2023 Draft, only played in a combined 100 games for Double-A Harrisburg and Triple-A Rochester before making his big league debut with Washington in late August. But his impact was well felt. A plus runner with above-average field and arm grades, Crews brought the athleticism of a center fielder to the corners in a Nationals system loaded with high-level outfielders, posting a .996 fielding percentage before his promotion. He then rated as a 93 percentile runner with an 83 percentile arm in the big leagues.

A sixth-round pick in 2023 out of the Mississippi prep ranks, the 20-year-old Pratt is a big, physical shortstop with plus fielding and arm grades. He committed only eight errors in 338 chances across 730 2/3 defensive innings between Single-A Carolina and High-A Wisconsin, where he finished the year. This is the second straight year Milwaukee had a top prospect on this list, after the organization's top prospect, Jeferson Quero (MLB No. 43) nabbed Gold Glove honors at catcher in 2023.

The other ranked prospects to claim Gold Glove honors were Double-A Pensacola catcher Joe Mack (MIA No. 9), Double-A Arkansas second baseman Brock Rodden (SEA No. 22), High-A Spokane third baseman Kyle Karros (COL No. 18), Double-A New Hampshire outfielder Dasan Brown (TOR No. 23), High-A Aberdeen outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. (BAL No. 4) and High-A Quad Cities southpaw Frank Mozzicato (KC No. 11).

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Here is the full list of 2024 Minor League Gold Glove winners:

C: Joe Mack (MIA No. 9), Pensacola
1B: Keaton Anthony (PHI NR), Jersey Shore
2B: Brock Rodden (SEA No. 22), Arkansas
3B: Kyle Karros (COL No. 18), Spokane
SS: Cooper Pratt (MIL No. 2/MLB No. 57), Wisconsin
OF: Dasan Brown (TOR No. 23), New Hampshire
OF: Dylan Crews (WSH No. 1/MLB No. 1), Rochester
OF: Enrique Bradfield, Jr. (BAL No. 4), Aberdeen
P: Frank Mozzicato (KC No. 11), Quad Cities