2018 Dr. Pepper Texas Rangers Awards Dinner set for Friday, January 19

The 2018 Dr Pepper Texas Rangers Awards Dinner take place on Friday, January 19 at Gilley's Dallas. Details of the event were announced today.
 
Tickets for the dinner, which will honor a number of baseball personalities and feature appearances by Texas Rangers past and present, are now on sale at www.texasrangers.com/awards.
 
Among the honorees will be shortstop Elvis Andrus, who was announced today as the Texas Rangers 2017 Player of the Year in voting conducted by the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. 
 
This is the first Rangers Player of the Year honor for Andrus and the first for a Texas shortstop since Michael Young in 2007. Andrus batted .297 with career highs for runs (100), hits (191), doubles (44), homers (22), and RBI (88) in 158 games in 2017. He ranked among the A.L. leaders in hits (3rd), doubles (T4th), games (T6th), and runs (T7th) and was a finalist for the A.L. Rawlings Gold Glove at shortstop.  
 
Other award recipients will be announced in the upcoming weeks, including the Rangers' 2017 Pitcher and Rookie of the Year, the Harold McKinney Good Guy Award, and the Richard Durrett Hardest Working Man Award.
 
Tickets for the Dr Pepper Awards Dinner are priced at $110.00 each with tables of ten also available. Net proceeds benefit the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation. The dinner will begin at 7:00 p.m.
 
Gilley's Dallas is located at 1135 S. Lamar St. in Dallas. The 2018 Dr Pepper Texas Rangers Awards Dinner is also sponsored by FOX Sports Southwest and 105.3 The FAN.
 
For more information, please contact the Rangers at 972-RANGERS.