When the Silver Slugger Award was first bestowed in 1980, the primary members of the Big Red Machine were mostly gone. It was the beginning of a fallow decade for the club, but individual players continued to rise to the fore.
In fact, the 1980s saw the Reds earn at least one Silver Slugger in all but two years of the decade. Since then, Cincinnati has been the home of solitary stars and blips on the power radar. Here is the full history of Reds Silver Slugger winners.
Complete history of Cincinnati Reds' Silver Slugger winners
Big Red Machine Leftovers
By 1980, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, and other stars had found their way out of Cincinnati, but two significant members of the Reds’ dynasty remained.