List of Silver Slugger Award winners at catcher


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.
Among catchers, Mike Piazza has won the most Silver Slugger Awards, with ten consecutive wins in the National League between 1993 and 2002; this is the most Silver Sluggers won consecutively by any player in Major League Baseball. In the American League, Iván Rodríguez has won the most Silver Sluggers, with six consecutive wins from 1994 to 1999, and a seventh when he tied with Víctor Martínez in 2004. Lance Parrish won the American League award six times, and Joe Mauer and Jorge Posada have won it five times; Mauer won in 2006, 2008–2010 and 2013, while Posada won in 2000–2003 and 2007. Hall of Famer Gary Carter and Brian McCann are five-time winners in the National League. Other multiple awardees include Buster Posey, Benito Santiago, Mickey Tettleton and Carlton Fisk. J. T. Realmuto and Mitch Garver are the most recent National and American League winners, respectively.
Piazza holds several Major League records for catchers in a Silver Slugger-winning season; most were set in 1997. That season, he had an on-base percentage of.431, and had 124 runs batted in to lead the award-winning catchers in those statistical categories. Javy López holds the Major League records among winners for home runs and slugging percentage ; these were set in 2003. Mauer holds the Major League record in batting average with a.365 clip he set in 2009. Mauer also leads the American League in on-base percentage. Mitch Garver's.630 slugging percentage in 2019 tops the American League in that category. Parrish batted in 114 runs in 1983, and Fisk hit 37 home runs in 1985.

Key

American League winners

YearPlayerTeamAVGOBPSLGHRRBIRef
Detroit Tigers.286.325.4992482
†Chicago White Sox.263.354.361745
Detroit Tigers.284.338.5293287
Detroit Tigers.269.314.48327114
Detroit Tigers.237.287.4433398
†Chicago White Sox.238.320.48837107
Detroit Tigers.257.340.4832262
Detroit Tigers.289.345.5363287
†Chicago White Sox.277.377.5421950
Baltimore Orioles.258.369.5092665
California Angels.268.338.4512470
Detroit Tigers.263.387.4913189
Detroit Tigers.238.379.4693283
New York Yankees.305.389.5342684
†Texas Rangers.298.360.4881657
†Texas Rangers.303.327.4491267
†Texas Rangers.300.342.4731986
†Texas Rangers.313.360.4842077
†Texas Rangers.321.358.5132191
†Texas Rangers.332.356.55835113
New York Yankees.287.417.5272886
New York Yankees.277.363.4752295
New York Yankees.268.370.4682099
New York Yankees.281.405.51830101
§Cleveland Indians.283.359.49223108
§†Detroit Tigers.334.383.5101986
Boston Red Sox.281.366.4892270
Minnesota Twins.347.429.5071384
New York Yankees.338.426.5432090
Minnesota Twins.328.413.451985
Minnesota Twins.365.444.5872896
Minnesota Twins.327.402.469975
Detroit Tigers.295.389.5061982
Chicago White Sox.278.326.5012777
Minnesota Twins.324.404.4761147
Cleveland Indians.278.313.4722174
New York Yankees.232.320.4272694
Kansas City Royals.247.288.4382264
New York Yankees.278.345.5313390
Kansas City Royals.235.274.4392780
Minnesota Twins.273.365.6303167

National League winners

YearPlayerTeamAVGOBPSLGHRRBIRef
†St. Louis Cardinals.303.375.5052198
†Montreal Expos.251.313.4441668
†Montreal Expos.293.381.5102997
San Diego Padres.284.342.4341798
†Montreal Expos.294.366.48727106
†New York Mets.281.365.48832100
†New York Mets.255.337.43924105
San Diego Padres.300.324.4671879
San Diego Padres.248.282.3621046
†Houston Astros.257.336.4021360
San Diego Padres.270.323.4191153
San Diego Padres.267.296.4031787
Philadelphia Phillies.270.385.52427109
*†Los Angeles Dodgers.318.370.56135112
*†Los Angeles Dodgers.319.370.5412492
*†Los Angeles Dodgers.346.400.6063293
*†Los Angeles Dodgers.336.422.56336105
*†Los Angeles Dodgers.362.431.63840124
*†Los Angeles Dodgers
Florida Marlins
New York Mets		.328.390.57032111

*†New York Mets.303.361.57540124
*†New York Mets.324.398.61438113
*†New York Mets.300.384.5733694
*†New York Mets.280.359.5443398
Atlanta Braves.328.378.68743109
Atlanta Braves.314.378.450976
Chicago Cubs.276.345.4791661
Atlanta Braves.333.388.5722493
Los Angeles Dodgers.293.374.4691987
Atlanta Braves.301.373.5232387
Atlanta Braves.281.349.4862194
Atlanta Braves.269.375.4532177
Atlanta Braves.270.351.4662471
San Francisco Giants.336.408.54924103
St. Louis Cardinals.319.359.4771280
San Francisco Giants.311.364.4902289
San Francisco Giants.318.379.4701995
Washington Nationals.307.354.4962280
San Francisco Giants.320.400.4621267
Miami Marlins.277.340.4842174
Philadelphia Phillies.275.328.4932583