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Indians: Roberto Perez and Cesar Hernandez pull in Gold Gloves win

By Chad Porto

CLEVELAND, OH - SEPTEMBER 09: Roberto Perez #21, Cesar Hernandez #7 and Starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco #21 of the Cleveland Indians talk during the first inning against the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field on September 09, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. MLB players are being given the option of wearing #21 in honor of Roberto Clemente Day for the first time since his number was retired in 1973. (Photo by Ron Schwane/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH - SEPTEMBER 09: Roberto Perez #21, Cesar Hernandez #7 and Starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco #21 of the Cleveland Indians talk during the first inning against the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field on September 09, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. MLB players are being given the option of wearing #21 in honor of Roberto Clemente Day for the first time since his number was retired in 1973. (Photo by Ron Schwane/Getty Images) /
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The Indians add a bit more post-season hardware to their trophy case on Tuesday as Roberto Perez and Cesar Hernandez win some Gold Gloves.

The Indians have two more Gold Glove winners to add to their legendary franchise as Cesar Hernandez and Roberto Perez won the AL Gold Gloves award for second base and catcher respectively. For Hernandez, this is his first win of the award, and for Perez, this is his second win. This is only the second time since 2001 that the Indians had players win Gold Gloves in consecutive years, and it’s only the second time since 2001 that a player has repeated a Gold Gloves win.

Perez joins Grady Sizemore, Kenny Loften, Omar Vizquel, and Roberto Alomar as the only Indians players to win back-to-back Gold Glove awards since Ray Fosse in 1970 and 1971. Speaking of Fosse, and Perez joins him as the only catcher in Tribe history to win the award in back to back years.

Hernandez was a force as a second baseman, as he played 58 of 60 games this year, all at second base, and posted a fielding percentage of .981. He had 67 putouts to only four errors for the year. He also hit .283 with 20 doubles and three home runs, making sure he put in the effort in both the field and at the plate.

For Perez, he’s cemented himself as one of the greatest defensive catchers in Tribe history with is second consecutive Gold Glove. He didn’t commit an error in any of his 32 games played at catcher, and despite missing half the season, he still had 21 assists. A higher rate of which compared to his previous season. At the plate he was pretty slow going, only hitting .165, but his ability to play defense and call games for the pitchers made him invaluable.

Their wins add to the club’s post-season award wins, with Carlos Carrasco’s Comeback Player of the Year Award and Shane Bieber and Jose Ramirez being finalists for the AL Cy Young and MVP award respectively.

So far only Zach Plesac has been nominated for an award and has failed to bring it home.

The awards were announced on Tuesday night on a special ESPN broadcast, which drew some fans ire due to it going head-to-head against the Presidential election coverage. This caused many fans to mock Rob Manfred and ESPN for allowing the broadcast to air against such heavy competition.

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