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Cano wins Silver Slugger Award
ByHaving already received his first career Gold Glove earlier this week, Robbie Cano added some more hardware to his mantle today, taking home his second career Silver Slugger Award. He also earned the honors in 2006, his first full season in the big leagues. Cano hit .319/.381/.534 this season, leading all second baseman in hits (200), RBI (109), wOBA (.389), and fWAR (6.4) in addition to OBP and SLG. He set career highs with 29 homers and an 8.2% walk rate. Congrats Robbie, this one was well deserved.
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I think Robbie fully established himself as the best second baseman in baseball this season.
Robby is the best in the AL. However, Utley is still the premier 2B in the sport, IMO.
Looks like Utley’s surgery may have had some effects on him… Cano was definitely better this year.
Cano > Utley in 2010
Utley > Cano from 2005-09
That walk rate is a tad inflated by IBB (14/57 walks were intentional), but whatever.
Robbie is just so good.
The 14 IBB show how much pitchers feared him! It’s not inflated at all!
I think he deserves the MVP. Deserved Gold glove at 2nd, silver slugger, catalyst for the team with the second best record in the league. I understand the argument with Josh Hamilton but how can you deny the facts that Robbie carried the Yankees with his hitting, and was clearly the best infielder in baseball this year.
No one is denying Cano carried the Yankees for portions of the season, Hamilton did as well.
The problem I personally have with Hamilton’s case is how much he dropped off when playing on the road.
Hamilton’s road production was still great, though. He didn’t exactly turn into a run-of-the-mill hitter like CarGo away from home.
This, very much. Hamilton went from a video game at home to an excellent player on the road. CarGo went from God at home to totally meh on the road.
Well, that, and he only played 130 games. That’s probably the best argument against Hamilton.
I think he deserves the MVP.
he really doesn’t.
Ok, I’ll bite.
What’s a solid reason he doesn’t deserve it?
Hamilton deserves it more?