Miguel Cabrera will be the proud recipient the Sliver Slugger Award for the second straight year - this year it was at third base. Cabrera won the award as an outfielder last year.
Here is the list of the NL Winners.
1B - Ryan Howard, Philadelphia Phillies
2B - Chase Utley, Philadelphia Phillies
3B - Miguel Cabrera, Florida Marlins
SS - Jose Reyes, New York Mets
OF - Carlos Beltran, New York Mets
OF - Alfonso Soriano, Washington Nationals
OF - Matt Holliday, Colorado Rockies
C - Brian McCann, Atlanta Braves
P - Carlos Zambrano, Chicago Cubs
The award isn't completely statistically based.
And now for the history of the Sliver Slugger award - hey, you never know when it will come up on final Jeopardy and you will thank me later if it does.
The Silver Slugger Award was instituted by H&B in 1980 as a natural extension of the Silver Bat Award which is, as its name indicates, a silver-plated bat presented by Louisville Slugger to the batting champions in the AL and NL.
Two other Marlins have won a Sliver Slugger besides Cabrera: Gary Sheffield in 1993 and 1996 and Mike Lowell in 2002.
Congrats Miggy!