DENVER – Louisville Slugger, in partnership with FanSided, announced today that Colorado Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman has won the Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award for catcher in the National League.
Goodman, 26, becomes the 17th Rockie to earn a Silver Slugger Award, the first catcher in club history and the first since Trevor Story (shortstop) in 2019. Overall, it marks the 33rd time a Rockie has won a Silver Slugger Award in franchise history.
Below are highlights from Goodman’s 2025 season:
• In 144 games, slashed .278/.323/.520 (.843 OPS) with 28 doubles, five triples, 31 home runs and 91 RBI.
• Represented the Rockies at the All-Star Game, catching five innings … selected as a reserve by player balloting, his first career All-Star selection and the second Rockies catcher all-time to be selected to an All-Star team alongside Elias Díaz (2023).
• Ranked among NL leaders in slugging (.520, 7th), home runs (31, T-8th), extra-base hits (64, T-11th), OPS (.843, 12th) and RBI (91, 13th) … led all qualified NL catchers in each of those categories.
• Became the second primary catcher in the Modern Era (min. 51% of games at catcher) to record at least 25 doubles, five triples and 30 home runs in a season, joining the Philadelphia Phillies’ Stan Lopata in 1956 (33 2B, 7 3B, 32 HR).
• Became catcher all-time in his age-25 season or younger with at least 30 home runs and 90 RBI, joining Rudy York (1937-38), Joe Torre (1966), Johnny Bench (1970, ’72), Mike Piazza (1993) and Gary Sanchez (2017).
• First NL catcher to hit 30 home runs in a season since the Braves’ Javy Lopez hit 43 in 2003 … first Rockie to record at least 30 home runs since Charlie Blackmon (32), Trevor Story (35), and Nolan Arenado (41) in 2019 … hit 18 home runs on the road, 13 at home.
• His home runs, 150 hits, 64 extra-base hits and 91 RBI are all the most by a Rockies’ primary catcher in a single season in franchise history.
• His 64 extra-base hits the second most for a Rockie in a single season since 2021, trailing Ezequiel Tovar’s 75 in 2024.
• Seven home runs in the ninth inning were the second most in the Majors behind Cal Raleigh (8) … 14 home runs in the seventh inning or later were the sixth-most.
• Recorded 47 hits on the first pitch of an at-bat, tied with Julio Rodríguez for the second-most in the Majors behind the A’s Tyler Soderstrom (50) … 10 home runs on the first pitch tied for the fourth-most in the Majors.
The Silver Slugger Award is the top offensive award in Major League Baseball, with the season’s best players at each position selected in a vote by MLB coaches and managers in their respective leagues.
A vote of MLB managers and coaches decides the Silver Slugger Award winners. They cast ballots for the players they determine to be the best offensive producers at each position in their respective league. Each team receives four votes: the manager and three coaches of their choice. Votes are based on a combination of offensive statistics including OBP, OPS, OPS+, home runs, hits, RBI and batting average as well as the managers’ and coaches’ general impressions of a player’s overall offensive value.