Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto headlined the National League\u2019s 2025 Silver Slugger class announced Thursday, with Soto collecting the sixth Silver Slugger of his career and Ohtani earning his fourth.<\/p>\n
Major League Baseball unveiled the NL winners, as voted on by managers and coaches, honoring the top offensive performers at each position, including three outfielders and a utility slot. This year\u2019s group features five first- time recipients and winners from seven different clubs.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Dodgers were named the NL\u2019s Offensive Team of the Year for the second straight season.<\/p>\n
Ohtani didn\u2019t repeat the 50-50 season he had a year ago, but it was another monster season for the likely MVP. He set a Dodgers record with 55 home runs, led the majors with 146 runs scored and topped the NL in OPS (1.014), slugging percentage (.622) and total bases (380).<\/p>\n
Soto, in his first season with the New York Mets, continued his stellar play with a career-high 43 home runs, an MLB-best 127 walks and an NL-leading .396 OBP to win a Silver Slugger with his fourth franchise (Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Mets).<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso broke through for his first Silver Slugger at first base. The Mets power hitter racked up 38 HRs and 126 RBIs.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back awards went to Ketel Marte of the Arizona Diamondbacks at second base and the Padres\u2019 Manny Machado at third, while Arizona shortstop Geraldo Perdomo turned a breakout year (20 HRs, 100 RBIs, 27 stolen bases) into his first Silver Slugger.<\/p>\n
Corbin Carroll made it three Diamondbacks to win Silver Sluggers after he joined the 30-30 club (31 HRs, 32 SBs) to secure his first outfield honor. The Chicago Cubs\u2019 Kyle Tucker claimed his second outfield Silver Slugger after another 20-20 campaign.<\/p>\n
Rookie backstop Hunter Goodman belted 31 homers to become the Colorado Rockies\u2019 first-ever catching winner. The St. Louis Cardinals\u2019 Alec Burleson rounded out the slate as the utility winner.<\/p>\n
The American League winners will be announced Friday.<\/p>\n
The full list of winners is as follows:<\/p>\n
NATIONAL LEAGUE<\/p>\n
Catcher: Hunter Goodman, Rockies (first) First base: Pete Alonso, Mets (first) Second base: Ketel Marte, Diamondbacks (second) Third base: Manny Machado, Padres (third) Shortstop: Geraldo Perdomo, Diamondbacks (first) Outfield: Juan Soto, Mets (sixth); Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks (first); Kyle Tucker, Cubs (second) Designated hitter: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers (fourth) Utility: Alec Burleson, Cardinals (first) Offensive Team of the Year: Dodgers (second)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto headlined the National League\u2019s 2025 Silver Slugger class announced Thursday, with Soto collecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[78971,64,63,941,591,44,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-asahi-shimbun","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}