Pirates McCutchen wins fourth consecutive Silver Slugger award
The post-season honours keep coming for Josh Donaldson.
The Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award winners are decided by a vote of Major League Baseball managers and coaches who select the players they determine to be the best offensive producers at each position in the American and National Leagues.
Bogaerts batted. 320 with a. 355 on-base percentage, .421 slugging percentage, .776 OPS, seven homers, 35 doubles, three triples and 81 RBIs. The Giants’ ace pitcher wins the Silver Slugger as the National League’s best hitting pitcher for the second straight year, and he seems like the most obvious choice.
Donaldson is the first Blue Jays third baseman to win a Silver Slugger Award since Kelly Gruber won one in 1990.
The Giants have always been known for pitching, but Thursday’s Silver Slugger Award announcements showed that this now is an organization that’s as powerful as any in the National League.
This is McCann’s first Silver Slugger since 2011. 900 each month, topping out at 1.079 in August when he won the NL Player of the Month award.
Reaching a new career-high with 26 home runs and tying a career-high with 94 RBI, McCann finished the season with a.232/.320/.437 slash line. His. He hit. 337 (68-for-202) with two down, which was good for fifth in the Junior Circuit. San Francisco even used Bumgarner as a pinch hitter four times in 2015, and he was 2-for-3 with a walk.
Crawford hit career-highs in home runs (21), RBI (84), BA (.256), doubles (33), hits (130) and stolen bases (6) in 2015.