Adley and Tony Taters finalists for Silver Slugger

[Sports Guy]

 

Edited October 27, 2022 by Sports Guy

[Pickles]

The nominations were just announced.  Rutschman nominated for catcher, and Santander in the outfield.

[Pickles]

Ooops, I made a thread on this as well.

I'm happy for Santander, though I don't expect he will win.

[waroriole]

Martin Maldonado, with a .600 OPS, and .248 OBP was also nominated. These awards are a joke. 

[Frobby]

So there are six “finalists” for catcher?  That’s pretty absurd.  

I think Kirk will and should win.  
 

[SteveA]

57 minutes ago, Frobby said:

So there are six “finalists” for catcher?  That’s pretty absurd.  

I think Kirk will and should win.  
 

Looks like most other positions have 4, and outfield has 10.   In the AL.  Odd.

My GUESS is that some type of voting has taken place, and the winners are already known.   And the "finalists" are just the top 3 at every position.   But there are guys tied for 3rd, at each position, in the case of catcher maybe there are 4 guys tied for 3rd place.   So they list anyone who is tied for a top 3 position.

Because there are just 4 catchers in the NL.

It's also interesting that they have, just as they have for the Gold Glove, added a "utility" position.   And that a player can be on the list for the utility position and also for a regular position (example Jeff McNeil is a Silver Slugger finalist at both utility and 2nd base).

And someone is going to get the special honor of being the first ever National League Silver Slugger DH.

[OriolesMagic83]

Ohtani for DH and utility player.  I didn't know Ohtani was a utility player.  Can he play SS?

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Ohtani for DH and utility player.  I didn't know Ohtani was a utility player.  Can he play SS?

Probably.

[DrungoHazewood]

19 hours ago, waroriole said:

Martin Maldonado, with a .600 OPS, and .248 OBP was also nominated. These awards are a joke. 

The other guys didn't field well enough to get noticed.

[DrungoHazewood]

15 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Ohtani for DH and utility player.  I didn't know Ohtani was a utility player.  Can he play SS?

Better than Jeter.

[DrungoHazewood]

16 hours ago, SteveA said:

Looks like most other positions have 4, and outfield has 10.   In the AL.  Odd.

My GUESS is that some type of voting has taken place, and the winners are already known.   And the "finalists" are just the top 3 at every position.   But there are guys tied for 3rd, at each position, in the case of catcher maybe there are 4 guys tied for 3rd place.   So they list anyone who is tied for a top 3 position.

Because there are just 4 catchers in the NL.

It's also interesting that they have, just as they have for the Gold Glove, added a "utility" position.   And that a player can be on the list for the utility position and also for a regular position (example Jeff McNeil is a Silver Slugger finalist at both utility and 2nd base).

And someone is going to get the special honor of being the first ever National League Silver Slugger DH.

Often times a weird poll result is because the voting or voting system was weird.  For things like this they rarely put a lot of thought into the system and end up with some nonsense results.

Palmeiro almost certainly won that Gold Glove when he only played 30 games in the field because the voting was an open plurality, and there were no eligibility criteria.  They just asked a bunch of coaches and managers who they thought was good, didn't give them a list of eligibles, and whoever got the most votes won even if they got 17% (so 83% didn't vote for you). 

The Hall of Fame voting regularly spits out crazy things because it's poorly conceived and executed.  Here's a list of 54 people, vote for zero to 10 of them, and if anyone gets 75% they're in.  So in the late 50s there were ballots with 35 eventual HOFers where no one was picked at all.

You're probably right with this vote that the AL outfielders had a seven-way tie for 3rd with two or three votes each.

Edited October 28, 2022 by DrungoHazewood