J.D. Martinez had a monster season and despite falling just shy of a Gold Glove Award for his work in right field, has earned another achievement. The Detroit Tigers announced on Thursday that the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America had named Martinez the 2015 Tiger of the Year, giving him top honors as the best player on the team.
In doing so, he became the seventh player in Tigers history to hit 38-or-more home runs and drive in 100-or-more runs in a season, joining Miguel Cabrera (2010, 2012, 2013), Norm Cash (1961), Rocky Colavito (1961), Cecil Fielder (1990, 1991), Hank Greenberg (1937, 1938, 1940,1946) and Dean Palmer (1999).