When MLB announced the American League Silver Slugger winners on Friday, there was plenty for the New York Yankees to […]

As an organization, the Royals have produced 19 Silver Slugger Award winners. Witt is the lone Royals shortstop to receive the honor and just the fourth KC player to win it multiple times. He joined Perez (five), George Brett (three) and Willie Wilson (two) with that distinction.

Entering the 2022 season, only 13 players had won a Silver Slugger Award as a rookie since it was established in 1980. But after the Athletics' Nick Kurtz won the honor for the '25 campaign, it marked four straight years in which a rookie had achieved the feat.

Now that the 2025 MLB campaign is officially over, the highly-anticipated awards have started to be handed out to players who had outstanding performances durin