Caleb Shpur named 2025 Division I Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winner

The centerfielder led all of Division I baseball with 19.66 defensive runs saved.

UConn baseball’s Caleb Shpur is officially the best defensive centerfielder in the nation, with the outfielder named a 2025 Division I Rawlings Gold Glove recipient.

Shpur became the first Husky in program history to win the award, which was introduced to college baseball in 2007. His 19.66 defensive runs saved led all of Division I baseball, with the former Division III Endicott College transfer routinely making the difficult plays look easy and the near-impossible plays seem effortless.

The gold glove adds to what was already an impressive, record-filled season for Shpur. His 43 stolen bases set a new single-season record in the program’s history books. On May 3 against Villanova, he went 7-7 and collected six RBI, becoming the first Husky since 1979 to collect seven hits in one game. On the year he knocked 87 hits total, good for the eighth-most all-time in one season. With 70 runs scored, Shpur tied the third-highest mark for runs scored in a single season.

Shpur ends his Husky career on a high note, moving on from the program after two years in Storrs and his first four at Endicott.