Jacob Young gets a second crack at becoming only the third Gold Glove Award winner in Nationals history.

Young was named a finalist for the award this morning, one of three competing to be honored as the best defensive center fielder in the National League. He’s joined by the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Cardinals’ Victor Scott II.

The winner will be announced Nov. 3.

It’s the second straight year Young has been named a Gold Glove finalist. Though he seemed to have a stronger statistical case for the award in 2024, he ultimately lost out to the Rockies’ Brenton Doyle.

Young’s case this season isn’t quite as concrete. He was one of only three regular major league position players with a 1.000 fielding percentage. But he ranked second to Crow-Armstrong in FanGraphs’ overall Defensive Rating (17.7 to 12.3) and Defensive Runs Saved (15 to 13). And he ranked third to both Crow-Armstrong and Scott in Statcast’s Outs Above Average (24 to 16 to 14) and Runs Prevented (22 to 14 to 13).

Young, it should be noted, compiled his stats in only 112 games played (901 1/3 innings) while Crow-Armstrong played 156 games (1,357 innings) and Scott played 138 games (1,118 innings).

Young also made some of the season’s most spectacular catches, including multiple home run robberies and a wild play in Sept. 21 at Citi Field in New York in which he kept a live ball in the air with his feet before snagging it with his glove.

The Nationals, who ranked among the majors’ worst defensive teams this seasons, had no other Gold Glove finalists. In 20 years since arriving in town, they’ve had only two Gold Glove winners: third baseman Ryan Zimmerman (2009) and first baseman Adam LaRoche (2012).