ST. LOUIS, MO – Nov. 12, 2021 – Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., announced the winners of the
Rawlings Platinum GloveTM and Team Defense Awards for the 2021 season. Houston Astros’ shortstop,
Carlos Correa, and St. Louis Cardinals’ third baseman, Nolan Arenado, each won a Rawlings Platinum
Glove Award, presented by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Their respective teams,
the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals, were announced as recipients of the Rawlings Team
Defense Award. The Awards were revealed in a special broadcast that aired earlier in the evening on
MLB Network, co-hosted by Greg Amsinger, Yonder Alonso and Harold Reynolds.

This marks the first Rawlings Platinum Glove Award for Correa and fifth consecutive Rawlings Platinum
Glove Award for Arenado. Arenado is the first player to secure five Platinum Glove Awards and the first
infielder to begin a career with nine consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards®.

The Rawlings Platinum Glove Award winners are determined by combining votes based on an adjusted
SABR Defensive IndexTM (SDI) for each of the nine Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners in each League
and from baseball fan votes worldwide. Voting for the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award began at the
conclusion of the ‘2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Announcement Show’ that aired on ESPN’s ‘Sunday
Night Baseball’ on Nov. 7 and ended on Nov. 10. Fans took to Rawlings.com to voice who they thought
was the best defender in each League.

“Since 2011, fans have passionately chosen the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award winners, and they
continue to impress us with their knowledge and admiration of great defense,” said Scott Bush, chief
executive officer of SABR. “SABR is proud to provide the detailed statistics and pertinent data to aid in
the fans’ informed voting decision process.”

The Rawlings Team Award, in its second year, utilizes an SDI that draws on and aggregates two types of
existing defensive metrics: those derived from batted ball location-based data and those collected from
play-by-play accounts. SDI utilizes MLBAM’s Statcast, Sports Information Solutions data, and STATS, LLC
data as well as traditional statistics with advanced analysis.

“The Rawlings Team Defense Awards represent a new chapter in ‘Gold-Glove’ worthy defense, and the
recipients truly epitomize “The Finest in the Field,” said Mike Thompson, chief marketing officer of
Rawlings. “The Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals had countless, memorable defensive plays this
season and have undeniably earned the distinction of being named winners of the Rawlings Team
Defense Awards.”

Both the Rawlings Platinum and Team Defense Awards will be presented to the athletes and their
teams, respectively, at games to take place early in the 2022 regular season.