With the MLB season within the rear view mirror, the MLB hosted this 12 months’s Silver Slugger Awards on Tuesday evening as Aaron Decide and Shohei Ohtani led the best way with the foremost trophies.
Decide & Ohtani Lead MLB Awards
It was the identical faces choosing up this 12 months’s MLB Silver Slugger awards, as Aaron Decide and Shohei Ohtani got here up large but once more this 12 months.
The Silver Slugger awards are voted on by the league’s coaches and managers, with one of the best gamers from every place within the AL and NL receiving an honor (apart from the outfielders of which there are three from every league).
There have been solely seven first-time winners this 12 months on the awards, whereas the opposite 13 have already picked up a Slugger trophy of their profession. Jose Altuve and Mookie Betts alternatively gained their seventh titles, one thing that solely 16 gamers in MLB historical past have ever executed.
For the fourth time in his profession, Aaron Decide takes house an American League Silver Slugger Award for the outfield. pic.twitter.com/yvZvEJIspl
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Each groups from the World Sequence obtained the offensive group of the 12 months title, with the Yankees and Dodgers each dominating the awards.
Silver Slugger Award Recipients
See all of this 12 months’s Silver Slugger award winners beneath.
American League
- First Base: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays
- Second Base: Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
- Shortstop: Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas Metropolis Royals
- Third Base: Jose Ramirez, Cleveland Guardians
- Outfield: Aaron Decide, New York Yankees
- Outfield: Juan Soto, New York Yankees
- Outfield: Anthony Santander, Baltimore Orioles
- Catcher: Salvador Perez, Kansas Metropolis Royals
- Designated Hitter: Brent Rooker, Oakland Athletics
- Utility: Josh Smith, Texas Rangers
- Offensive Workforce of the Yr: Yankees
Nationwide League
- First Base: Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
- Second Base: Ketel Marte, Arizona Diamondbacks
- Shortstop: Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
- Third Base: Manny Machado, San Diego Padres
- Outfield: Jackson Merrill, San Diego Padres
- Outfield: Jurickson Profar, San Diego Padres
- Outfield: Teoscar Hernandez, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Catcher: William Contreras, Milwaukee Brewers
- Designated Hitter: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Utility: Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Offensive Workforce of the Yr: Dodgers