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Patriots Infielder Jesus Bastidas Named 2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Winner

OFFICIAL SOMERSET PATRIOTS PRESS RELEASE: Bridgewater, New Jersey – Minor League Baseball and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. have announced that Somerset Patriots 2B Jesus Bastidas is among the nine recipients…

Jesus Bastidas

Jesus Bastidas won a gold glove for his work in 2022 with Somerset. Photo: Somerset Patriots.

OFFICIAL SOMERSET PATRIOTS PRESS RELEASE:
Bridgewater, New Jersey – Minor League Baseball and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. have announced that Somerset Patriots 2B Jesus Bastidas is among the nine recipients of the 2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award for defensive excellence.

Bastidas had a .973 fielding percentage in 795 innings played over 92 games at second base. He handled 369 total chances, recorded 131 putouts, collected 228 assists and made just 10 errors. In addition, Bastidas was involved in 54 double plays at the position.

The 24-year-old also had a career year offensively in 2022 for Somerset to help lead the team to their first Eastern League Championship as a New York Yankees affiliate. Bastidas set new career highs in home runs (18), runs (56), RBIs (55), walks (38), total bases (169), hits (95) and doubles (18).

He was originally signed by the Yankees as an international free agent out of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, on July 2, 2015.

Bastidas becomes the first Patriots player to receive a Rawlings Gold Glove Award.

The winners at each position were selected from players in the 11 full-season Minor Leagues. Each player will receive his own Rawlings Gold Glove Award, modeled after the iconic award given to Major League Baseball’s top defensive players, during the 2023 season.

Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.