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They say ‘timing is everything,’ well…..I consider myself damn lucky that one of Baseball’s BEST talents, Darwin Barney, gave me 20-minutes to share my audience with one of Oregon’s BEST Baseball players.
Just 2-hours after our conversation, he was contacted that he had been awarded the National League ‘Gold Glove’ Award at 2nd Base.
The former Oregon State Beaver, two-time NCAA Champion, and OSAA Champion as a Sophomore at Southridge High School-Beaverton spent some time talking Baseball…with us in Bend.
Thanks Dawin. You’re an inspiration to so many…
Enjoy!
He was tops amongst Gold Glove Award finalists – regardless of position – with 28 runs saved through the 2012 season.
Barney had an outstanding defensive season for the Cubs, finishing with a .997 fielding percentage in 155 games at second base. He committed just two errors in 731 total chances.
A native of Portland, he tied the MLB record for consecutive games in a single season without an error by a second baseman at 141.
Barney was a mere three outs away from setting the record before committing a throwing error in a Sept. 28 game against Arizona.
Nevertheless, he set the National League record for consecutive errorless games by a second baseman (over multiple seasons), surpassing the great Ryne Sandberg – and one of Barney’s former managers in the Minor Leagues – who had gone 123 straight between the 1989 and 1990 seasons.
Barney is still in Oregon State’s top 10 in at bats (first, 765), hits (first, 238), runs (second, 152), doubles (fifth, 40), triples (seventh, 8), runs batted in (sixth, 136), walks (10th, 99) and total bases (seventh, 311).
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