Greg Maddux has won the most Gold Glove Awards among all players, including pitchers, in Major League Baseball history. He won 18 awards, all in the National League;[6] his streak of wins was consecutive from 1990 through 2002 until interrupted by Mike Hampton in 2003.[4] Maddux won five more awards from 2004 to 2008,[6] after which he retired.[7]Jim Kaat is second and held the record for most wins (16) until he was displaced by Maddux in 2007. He won 14 awards in the American League and 2 in the National League; his 16 consecutive awards is a record among winners.[8]Bob Gibson won nine Gold Gloves with the St. Louis Cardinals,[9] and the inaugural winner Bobby Shantz won four awards in each league, for a total of eight.[10]Mark Langston and Mike Mussina are tied for the fifth-highest total, with seven wins each.[11][12]Zack Greinke currently ranks seventh with six wins.[13] Gold Glove winners at pitcher who have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame include Gibson, Kaat, Mussina, Maddux, Steve Carlton, Jim Palmer, and Phil Niekro.[9][8][12][6][14][15][16]
Maddux made the most putouts in a season (39) three times in his career (1990, 1991, and 1993).[6] The American League leader is Frank Lary, who made 32 putouts for the Detroit Tigers in 1961.[17] Kaat is the leader in assists; he made 72 with the Minnesota Twins in 1962.[8] The National League leader, Maddux, trails him by one (71 assists in 1996).[6] Many pitchers have posted errorless seasons and 1.000 fielding percentages in their winning seasons; Mussina is the leader with four perfect seasons in the field.[12]Ron Guidry (1982–1984) and Mussina (1996–1998) both accomplished the feat in three consecutive seasons.[12][18] The most double plays turned by a winning pitcher is nine, accomplished by Maddux in 2006.[6] Four pitchers have also thrown no wild pitches in a winning season: Maddux (1997, 2006),[6] Kaat (1975),[8] Shantz (1961, 1962),[10] and Kenny Rogers (2005).[19] In contrast, the most wild pitches in a winning season is 18, by the knuckleballing Niekro.[16] The fewest balks in a winning season is zero, achieved many times, but Maddux accomplished the feat the most time in his wins (12 balk-free seasons in 18 years).[6] The most balks in a winning season is five, by Mike Norris in 1981, Orel Hershiser in 1988 and Mark Buehrle in 2010.[20][21][22] Buehrle picked off the most runners from the pitcher's mound in a winning season, with 11 in 2010;[22]Clayton Kershaw leads the National League with 9 pickoffs in 2011.[23] Rogers posted both the highest (100% in 2002) and lowest (0% in 2005) caught stealing percentage in a winning season; the latter also tied with Dallas Keuchel (2015 and 2018) in the American League.[24][25] Shantz' 1961 season tied Rogers' 0% mark for lowest percentage caught,[26] and Greinke leads the National League (80% caught).[27]
^ ab"Rawlings to Unveil Ballot". Rawlings. February 13, 2007. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009. Members of the original 1957 Rawlings Gold Glove Team: Willie Mays, CF (New York Giants); Al Kaline, RF (Detroit Tigers); Minnie Minoso, LF (Chicago White Sox); Frank Malzone, 3B (Boston Red Sox); Nellie Fox, 2B (Chicago White Sox); Gil Hodges, 1B (Dodgers); Roy McMillan, SS (Cincinnati Reds); Sherm Lollar C (Chicago White Sox); and Bobby Shantz, P (New York Yankees).