November 12, 2021

Slugging East

A look at the winners of the Silver Slugger Awards would discourage me from wanting to pitch in the Eastern divisions of the two leagues. Of the nine awards in the AL, three went to players on the Blue Jays, two to players on the Red Sox, one to the Yankees, and one to the Orioles.

In the NL, the Braves took home four of the awards, the the Nationals and Phillies getting one each.

Note that the Braves winning four Silver Slugger Awards flies in the face of Scott Boras’s complaints about the team. The Braves lost their best hitter mid-season, but had a number of good hitters already. The team just got hot in a weak division.

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