Awards season continued tonight with the announcement of the Silver Slugger awards, given to the player in each league who was deemed to be his position’s best hitter. The Brewers came into the evening with 22 Silver Slugger awards in the team’s history, including one just last year for catcher William Contreras. Contreras and the Brewers added one more to their tallies tonight, while the team’s other finalists, Willy Adames at shortstop and Jackson Chourio in the outfield, came up short this year.
Contreras, as expected, repeated as the award winner at catcher. His 131 wRC+ was 14 points higher than any other catcher who played at least 85 games—his older brother, Willson, was the only primary catcher in baseball who eclipsed that mark but he missed about half the season.