Jose Abreu and Alexei Ramirez win Silver Slugger Awards

Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu and shortstop Alexei Ramirez have been named American League Silver Slugger award winners. The award is the first for Abreu and second for Ramirez (also 2010).

The Silver Slugger award, voted on by major-league managers and coaches, is presented by Louisville Slugger to honor the best offensive performers at every position in each league.

Abreu and Ramirez are the fourth set of White Sox to be named Silver Sluggers in the same season, joining Joe Crede and Jermaine Dye in 2006, Magglio Ordonez and Frank Thomas in 2000 and Thomas and Julio Franco in 1994. They are the first Cuban-born teammates to win the award in the same season and join Jose Canseco (four times) and Rafael Palmeiro (twice) as the only native Cubans to be named Silver Sluggers.

Abreu, 27, is the first rookie in club history to win the Silver Slugger award and the first in baseball since the Angels' Mike Trout in 2012. The honor is the third for Abreu this offseason after being named the AL Rookie of the Year by Sporting News on October 20 and the Players Choice Outstanding Rookie on November 3. The BBWAA will announce its Jackie Robinson Rookies of the Year on November 10.

Abreu batted .317 (176-556) with 35 doubles, 36 home runs, 107 RBI, a .581 slugging and .383 on-base percentage in 145 games this season. He led the majors in slugging percentage, joining Dick Allen (1974) as the only players in White Sox history to accomplish that feat, and ranked among AL leaders in OPS (2nd, .964), total bases (2nd, 323), homers (T3rd), RBI (4th), extra-base hits (4th, 73), average (5th), OBP (5th) and doubles (T10th).

He became the first rookie in baseball history to rank among the Top 5 in his league in each Triple Crown category. Abreu's 36 home runs set a franchise rookie record and are the sixth-most in major-league history by a rookie.

Ramirez, 33, hit .273 (170-622) with 35 doubles, 15 home runs, 74 RBI and 82 runs scored over 158 games this season, his seventh with the White Sox. He led AL shortstops in home runs, RBI, slugging percentage (.408), extra-base hits (52) and total bases (254), tied for the lead in doubles, and ranked second in OPS (.713), runs scored and games. Ramirez recorded career highs in total bases and extra-base hits.

Ramirez was named to his first All-Star Team, the Sox first All-Star shortstop since Ozzie Guillen in 1991. He is the only White Sox shortstop to win the Silver Slugger award and joins Thomas (four), Carlton Fisk (three) and Ordonez (two) as the only players in Sox history to win multiple awards. Ramirez is the only Cuban shortstop ever to be named Silver Slugger.

Ramirez's 35 doubles were the sixth-highest total in team history by a shortstop. Ramirez joined Buck Weaver (1919-20) and Luke Appling (1936-37) as the only White Sox shortstops to record 30-plus doubles in consecutive seasons (39 in 2013).