The big league Chicago Cubs won an MLB-leading three Gold Gloves last night, with each of Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong, and Ian Happ taking home the deserved honors.
But they are not this year’s only Gold Glove winners in the Cubs organization!
On the minor league side, Rawlings hands out one Gold Glove at each position for all of the minor leagues, and what do you know, a Cubs prospect nabbed the honor at third base. Congrats to Pedro Ramirez:
Pedro Ramirez has been named a 2025 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winner!Ramirez becomes first Smokies player to win the award since Jhonny Pereda won as a catcher in 2019. pic.twitter.com/uIHVhdPU9V
— Knoxville Smokies (@smokiesbaseball) November 3, 2025How about that for Pedro Ramirez! Known around these parts much more for his bat, Ramirez getting that level of love for the glove is really impressive. I knew he could play solid defense at both third and second. I also knew he was projected a little better at third base. And I knew he was young enough and athletic enough to keep developing. but I’ll be honest, that was the extent of my understanding on the defensive side. Him winning an award like this in the 2025 season was not on my radar.
Chicago Cubs Infield Prospect Pedro Ramirez
Pedro Ramirez, 21, has been a steady, if precocious, climber up the minor league ranks since he put up eye-opening numbers out of the gate in the Dominican Summer League back in 2021. This season, in addition to the great defense, he hit .280/.346/.386/118 wRC+ in the pitching-heavy Double-A Southern League, with an 8.2% BB rate, a 15.1% K rate, and a .106 ISO.
He has essentially always hit well above league-average in total production – at an age much younger than average at his level – but there have been questions about projectability as he advances, given his size and style. He has generally been a line drive/groundball hitter with enough speed to create a lofty BABIP. He doesn’t strike out much, and he takes walks. But he doesn’t hit for much power, and a lot of the “power” you see in the slash line actually comes from running the bases well.
You are probably familiar with this profile: these are the guys who can do very well overall until they reach the Double-A/Triple-A threshold, and then the pitching and defense become an issue. The control is much better, so the walks go away. The stuff and execution are much better, so the strikeouts tick up. The hitter’s power isn’t a threat, so the pitchers are in the zone more often generally, which also squeezes both the walks and the strikeouts. The defense and game-planning are much better, so the BABIP shrinks. And just like that, a guy who’d always hit .290/.380/.400 in the minors gets hammered on all fronts, and the slash line becomes something like .250/.300/.320.
To be sure, I’m not saying this will happen with Pedro Ramirez, who showed a little more over-the-wall type power this year at Double-A, who reduced his groundball rate to south of 50%, who still produced despite his BABIP shrinking to .318, and who also had only just turned 21 in April. We’ll see what he looks like at Triple-A, but he’s young enough to keep on developing. He’s still in that window. I tend to be a little more worried about this profile with older prospects.
All that said, the fact that Ramirez is turning heads on the defensive side could be a huge boost to his floor. He’s already able to play two important infield positions, and he runs the bases well. He’s a switch-hitter, too. The bones are all there for a very good utility player, even if he doesn’t quite break out into being a starting-caliber big leaguer.
Pedro Ramirez is Rule 5 Draft eligible this winter, by the way, and you would normally not worry too much about a Double-A player getting plucked unless he had substantial offensive upside that could be realized immediately. The exception there, though, is a guy who can play great defense and runs the bases well. Sometimes, a rebuilding organization would be willing to try to take a swing on plucking a youngster, using him as a utility bench guy for a year, and then sending him to Triple-A the following year to keep developing.
As we’ve discussed, the Cubs will have a boatload of open 40-man spots this offseason, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to protect Pedro Ramirez if they had concerns about him being drafted.
The rest of the minor league Gold Glove winners:
? ? ?Here are the 2025 Minor League recipients of @RawlingsSports Gold Glove Award for defensive excellence: t.co/B1T1JkvNAE pic.twitter.com/o7dK1Pn9a2
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) November 3, 2025Hence then, the article about hey chicago cubs prospect pedro ramirez also won a gold glove was published today ( ) and is available on Bleacher Nation ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Hey, Chicago Cubs Prospect Pedro Ramirez Also Won a Gold Glove! )
Also on site :
- Formula 1 team principals name their top 10 drivers for 2025
- “Triple Fraud”, “Absolutely Devastated” – WWE Fans Have A Meltdown After The Usos Win 9th Tag Titles On RAW
- Rams see questionable missed pass interference call stall desperate final drive in ‘MNF’ loss to Falcons