A third Silver Slugger award wasn't in the cards for Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Despite an impressive regular season for the home grown star, Guerrero didn't get the votes he needed to beat out Nick Kurtz of the Athletics.
As announced live and exclusively on The Baseball Insiders YouTube channel, the Athletics young slugger picked up his first piece of hardware in a memorable rookie season. Kurtz had a 5.4 bWAR with 36 home runs, and slashed .290/.383/.619 with a 1.002 OPS.
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While Guerrero didn't have the best year in terms of power, he was extremely effective in all the other aspects.