 As we get down to the end of the season, there's always talk about postseason awards, things like the Triple Crown, the Cy Young, maybe the Gold Glove Award. So how do players qualify to receive these awards? Because maybe you have a guy who comes up late in the season from the minor leagues. He gets up, he gets one at bat, and he gets a hit. Technically he's batting a thousand on the year, and he'd be leading the league in batting average. But obviously it's not fair to give him an award for such a small sample size when you have other guys who have been out there the entire season, proving consistently how good of a player they are. So baseball set up certain standards that these guys have to meet. And this is rule 10-22 of the rulebook. And so it sets up three different categories, batting, pitching, fielding. So for hitting, for things like the Triple Crown is just who has the highest stats in certain categories. Guys need to have had at least 3.1 at bats per team game. So typically 162 games for major league season. And if you multiply that out, it's 503 at bats throughout the course of the season. This is an incredibly high amount because guys will typically have four if they're higher in the batting average, maybe five at bats in a game. So it does give you some time maybe to take a few days off throughout the course of the year, even if you get hurt and you're out for a while. You could still qualify for that award though. Pitchers is a little bit easier because as far as the math goes, because it's just one inning pitch per team game. So if you have over that 162 innings mark, then you qualify for the pitching awards. For starters who are throwing 5-6-7 innings every outing, they should be able to get there. Maybe a little bit tougher for relievers who depending on the situation, maybe they're only throwing part of an inning depending on how their manager likes to use them. So it could be more difficult for relievers there. Then again, if you're not a very good starting pitcher, you're only throwing once every five days, so you need to get your innings while you're in there. Fielding, as far as the gold glove award goes, is divided into two categories. The catcher who's obviously a little more involved in the action. He's working every single pitch. So the rules say you have to have caught one half of your team games. So obviously this is 81 games that you would have had to caught. For anybody else, for infielders, for outfielders, you have to have played two-thirds of the games at that position. So over the course of the season, we're looking at about 108 games that you have had to play at those positions. And so if you meet these benchmarks, you're above those numbers, that means that you qualify to be at least considered for these postseason awards.