List of Silver Slugger Award winners at pitcher


The Silver Slugger Award is awarded annually to the best offensive player at each position in both the American League and the National League, as determined by the coaches and managers of Major League Baseball. These voters consider several offensive categories in selecting the winners, including batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage, in addition to "coaches' and managers' general impressions of a player's overall offensive value". Managers and coaches are not permitted to vote for players on their own team. The Silver Slugger was first awarded in 1980 and is given by Hillerich & Bradsby, the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats. The award is a bat-shaped trophy, 3 feet tall, engraved with the names of each of the winners from the league and plated with sterling silver.
Only National League pitchers receive a Silver Slugger Award; lineups in the American League include the designated hitter, who replaces the pitcher in the batting order, so the designated hitter receives the award instead. Mike Hampton has won the most Silver Sluggers as a pitcher, earning five consecutive awards with four different teams from 1999 to 2003. Tom Glavine is a four-time winner with the Atlanta Braves. Rick Rhoden, Don Robinson, and Carlos Zambrano each own three Silver Sluggers. Two-time winners include the inaugural winner, Bob Forsch,, Fernando Valenzuela, who won the Cy Young Award, the Rookie of the Year Award, and the Silver Slugger in his first full major league season., and Madison Bumgarner. The most recent winner is Zack Greinke.
Hampton has hit the most home runs in a pitcher's Silver Slugger-winning season, with seven in 2001. He is tied with Robinson as the leader in runs batted in, with 16. Zack Greinke leads all Silver Slugger-winning pitchers in on-base percentage with a.409 clip set in 2013. Orel Hershiser leads winning pitchers in batting average, with the.356 mark he set in 1993. Micah Owings is the slugging percentage leader among winners.

Key

Winners

YearPlayerTeamAVGOBPSLGHRRBIRef
St. Louis Cardinals.295.313.474310
Los Angeles Dodgers.250.262.28107
Pittsburgh Pirates.282.311.412216
Los Angeles Dodgers.187.194.25319
Pittsburgh Pirates.333.345.40504
Pittsburgh Pirates.189.211.23006
Pittsburgh Pirates.278.298.411110
St. Louis Cardinals.298.333.50928
Los Angeles Dodgers.269.286.31309
San Francisco Giants.185.195.30937
San Francisco Giants.143.143.25427
†Atlanta Braves.230.288.24306
New York Mets.264.274.37519
Los Angeles Dodgers.356.373.41106
San Francisco Giants.354.360.50008
†Atlanta Braves.222.258.28618
†Atlanta Braves.289.333.34203
†Atlanta Braves.228.307.26604
†Atlanta Braves.239.250.28207
*Houston Astros.311.373.432010
*New York Mets.274.313.27408
*Colorado Rockies.291.309.582716
*Colorado Rockies.344.354.51635
*Atlanta Braves.183.246.35028
Montreal Expos.247.256.370110
St. Louis Cardinals.310.326.460110
Chicago Cubs.151.160.397611
Arizona Diamondbacks.333.349.683415
Chicago Cubs.337.337.554414
Chicago Cubs.217.225.464411
Milwaukee Brewers.254.329.508410
Arizona Diamondbacks.277.309.369114
Washington Nationals.277.333.42617
Los Angeles Dodgers.328.409.37904
San Francisco Giants.258.286.470415
San Francisco Giants.247.275.46859
Chicago Cubs.262.304.41527
St. Louis Cardinals.262.279.452211
Colorado Rockies.300.300.35015
Arizona Diamondbacks.271.300.58338