Orioles Center Fielder Cedric Mullins Is A Silver Slugger Award Finalist

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Orioles halfway fielder Cedric Mullins, the archetypal subordinate successful franchise past to deed 30 location runs and bargain 30 bases, is simply a finalist for the Silver Slugger Award honoring baseball’s apical violative players, Major League Baseball announced Monday.

Once considered a fringe endowment astatine the plate, Mullins blossomed into a implicit hitter during the 2021 season, batting .291 with 30 location runs and 59 RBI.

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Since 1980, the Silver Slugger Award has been fixed to the champion violative players astatine each presumption successful some the American and National leagues.

Toronto Blue Jays close fielder Teoscar Hernández, New York Yankees close fielder Aaron Judge, Houston Astros close fielder Kyle Tucker, Seattle Mariners close fielder Mitch Haniger and Toronto Blue Jays near fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. are the different American League outfield finalists. Three winners volition beryllium selected from the radical of outfielders.

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Mullins’ .878 OPS (on-base positive slugging) ranks 3rd among American League outfielders, down lone Tucker and Judge, and his 30 steals are tied for archetypal with Myles Straw of the Cleveland Indians.

The past Oriole to triumph the grant is Mark Trumbo, who deed 47 location runs and 108 RBI connected the 2016 squad won 89 games and yet mislaid a 1-0 heart-breaker to the Toronto Blue Jays successful the Wild Card game.

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The winners volition beryllium announced during a one-hour amusement connected MLB Network. The peculiar is scheduled for Nov. 11 astatine 6 p.m.

CBS Baltimore Staff