page_title: List of Silver Slugger Award winners at outfield
section_title: American League winners
hierarchical_section_title: List of Silver Slugger Award winners at outfield / American League winners
caption_attribution_description: Ichiro's 5th homerun of the year. Taken by the uploader on June 17, 2005 at Safeco Field, Seattle.
context_page_description: The Silver Slugger Award is awarded annually to the best offensive player at each position in both the American League and the National League, as determined by the coaches and managers of Major League Baseball. These voters consider several offensive categories in selecting the winners, including batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage, in addition to "coaches' and managers' general impressions of a player's overall offensive value". Managers and coaches are not permitted to vote for players on their own team. The Silver Slugger was first awarded in 1980 and is given by Hillerich & Bradsby, the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats. The award is a bat-shaped trophy, 3 feet tall, engraved with the names of each of the winners from the league and plated with sterling silver.
  As with the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, the prize is presented to outfielders irrespective of their specific position. This means that it is possible for three left fielders, or any other combination of outfielders, to win the award in the same year, rather than one left fielder, one center fielder, and one right fielder.
caption: Ichiro Suzuki won AL Silver Sluggers in 2001, 2007, and 2009.
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