Tejada wins Silver Slugger Award
10/31/2005
Throughout his nine-year career as one of the Major League's most multifaceted talents and threats, Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada has gained respect for his hard work and production.
The high esteem in which he is held by opponents was confirmed anew Monday with his selection as the winner of the Silver Slugger Award among American League shortstops.
Tejada earned his second consecutive Silver Slugger Award, voted by opposing managers and coaches to the player adjudged as the top offensive performer at each position, despite a couple of remarkable developments.
He got the vote even though another shortstop captured the American League batting title. For leading the league with a .331 average, Michael Young of the Rangers will be presented with the Silver Bat, the traditional perk of batting kings.
And Tejada was honored at the end of a down year. Of course, only in the case of someone who had established such lofty standards could a season in which he hit .304, with 26 homers and 98 RBIs, be classified as "down."
Yet, both the homers and RBIs represented six-year lows for the three-time All-Star, who had last missed driving in runs in triple figures in 1999.
However, Tejada's power numbers still led all big league shortstops -- by comparison, NL Silver Slugger-winning shortstop Felipe Lopez had 23 homers and 85 RBIs.
The Silver Slugger Award was created in 1980 as a natural spinoff of the Silver Bat. As in the past, winners of the Silver Slugger Award, presented by the Louisville Slugger company, were determined by a vote of MLB coaches and managers, based on personal impressions and a cross-section of key statistical categories.
Members of the voting board could not cast ballots for players on their own teams.
Presentations of the Silver Slugger awards, always one of the early highlights of the ensuing season, will be conducted in pregame ceremonies by a representative of the Hillerich & Bradsby Co., makers of Louisville Slugger.
Source: http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/
Throughout his nine-year career as one of the Major League's most multifaceted talents and threats, Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada has gained respect for his hard work and production.
The high esteem in which he is held by opponents was confirmed anew Monday with his selection as the winner of the Silver Slugger Award among American League shortstops.
Tejada earned his second consecutive Silver Slugger Award, voted by opposing managers and coaches to the player adjudged as the top offensive performer at each position, despite a couple of remarkable developments.
He got the vote even though another shortstop captured the American League batting title. For leading the league with a .331 average, Michael Young of the Rangers will be presented with the Silver Bat, the traditional perk of batting kings.
And Tejada was honored at the end of a down year. Of course, only in the case of someone who had established such lofty standards could a season in which he hit .304, with 26 homers and 98 RBIs, be classified as "down."
Yet, both the homers and RBIs represented six-year lows for the three-time All-Star, who had last missed driving in runs in triple figures in 1999.
However, Tejada's power numbers still led all big league shortstops -- by comparison, NL Silver Slugger-winning shortstop Felipe Lopez had 23 homers and 85 RBIs.
The Silver Slugger Award was created in 1980 as a natural spinoff of the Silver Bat. As in the past, winners of the Silver Slugger Award, presented by the Louisville Slugger company, were determined by a vote of MLB coaches and managers, based on personal impressions and a cross-section of key statistical categories.
Members of the voting board could not cast ballots for players on their own teams.
Presentations of the Silver Slugger awards, always one of the early highlights of the ensuing season, will be conducted in pregame ceremonies by a representative of the Hillerich & Bradsby Co., makers of Louisville Slugger.
Source: http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/
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