Ratterree earns 2014 Minor League Rawlings Gold Glove Award

GRAND CHUTE, WI - Wisconsin Timber Rattlers right fielder Michael Ratterree has been announced as a winner of a 2014 Rawlings Gold Glove Award ® for defensive excellence. Only nine Gold Gloves - one for each defensive position - are awarded in all of minor league baseball.

Ratterree, a 10^th round pick out of Rice by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2013, had 252 putouts and ten assists over 119 games in right field with the Timber Rattlers in 2014. He committed two errors during the season for a fielding percentage of .992.

The only other 2014 award winner to spend time in the Midwest League this season was center fielder Breland Almadova of the South Bend Silver Hawks.

A release from Minor League baseball notes:  To be eligible to receive the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, players must have participated in one of 10 domestic-based, full-season leagues, and show outstanding defensive skills. The Rawlings Gold Glove Award ® was re-introduced to Minor League Baseball in 2011 after an almost 50-year hiatus.

The 2014 Minor League Baseball recipients of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award^® are as follows:

Position	Player	Minor League Team(s)	Major League Organization
1B	Jordan Lennerton	Toledo	Detroit
2B	Tony Kemp	Lancaster/Corpus Christi	Houston
SS	Hanser Alberto	Myrtle Beach/Frisco	Texas
3B	Jason Esposito	Frederick	Baltimore
LF	Chad Wright	Lakeland	Detroit
CF	Breland Almadova	South Bend/Visalia	Arizona
RF	Michael Ratterree	Wisconsin/Huntsville	Milwaukee
C	Roberto Pena	Lancaster	Houston
P	Josh Geer	San Antonio	San Diego

Ratterree is the first Timber Rattler and second Brewers farmhand to win a minor league gold glove. Hunter Morris was the 2012 winner at first base after his season with the Huntsville Stars.

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