LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts and shortstop Trea Turner win the 2022 Louisville Silver Slugger Award for their respective positions.

The duo becomes the first set of Dodgers to win the award in the same season since 2009 when Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier received the honors and are the sixth set of Dodger teammates to win the award in the same year, joining Dusty Baker and Fernando Valenzuela (1981), Kirk Gibson and Tim Leary (1988), Mike Piazza and Orel Hershiser (1993), Piazza and Eric Karros (1995), and Kemp and Ethier.

Betts, 30, wins his fifth Silver Slugger award and his second as a member of the Dodgers. He is now one of six Dodgers to win the award multiple times joining, Dusty Baker (1980-’81), Fernando Valenzuela (1981, 1983), Mike Piazza (1993-’97), Matt Kemp (2009, 2011) and Corey Seager (2016-’17).  In 2020, he became the 20th player in franchise history to earn the award and he is one of four players in Major League Baseball history to win multiple Silver Slugger awards in both leagues, joining Miguel Cabrera (five in AL, 2 in NL), Gary Sheffield (2 in AL, 3 in NL) and Vladimir Guerrero Sr. (5 in AL, 3 in NL). 

He becomes the first player in Dodger franchise history to receive the Rawlings Gold Glove and Louisville Silver Slugger in the same season on multiple occasions (2020 and 2022) and he is one of six players in franchise history to earn the Rawlings Gold Glove and Louisville Silver Slugger in the same year, along with Cody Bellinger (2019), Adrían González (2014), Matt Kemp (2011), Russell Martin (2007) and Dusty Baker (1981).

In his third season with the Dodgers, he played in 142 games, hitting .269 (154-for-572) and finishing with the team best in homers (35) and slugging (.533) while tying for the team lead in runs scored (117). He became just the second Dodger in franchise history to record 40+ doubles and 35+ homers in the same season, joining Babe Herman in 1930 and set the new franchise record for homers from the leadoff spot for a season, surpassing Joc Pederson (32). The Nashville, TN native ranked among the National League outfield leaders in hits (3rd), runs (117, 1st), batting average (4th), OBP (.340, 10th), SLG (.533, 1st), OPS (.873, 1st), doubles (3rd), total bases (305, 1st), extra-base hits (78, T-1st) steals (12, 7th) and homers (2nd). 

Turner, 29, wins his first Louisville Silver Slugger award and becomes the second shortstop in Dodger franchise history to receive the honor, joining Corey Seager (2016-’17). Along with Betts, this will be the 30th time a Dodger has received a Silver Slugger award and he is the 21st Dodger to receive the honor since its inception in 1980. The Dodgers are tied for 10th-all time with the St. Louis Cardinals for most Silver Slugger awards by a team with 30.

In his first full season with the Dodgers, he played a team-best 160 games, hitting .298 (194-for-652) with 21 homers, 101 runs scored, 100 RBI and 27 stolen bases. He notched his third 100+ run season while tallying his first ever 100+ RBI campaign. He recorded the longest hitting streak in the Majors this season, hitting in 26 straight games from May 9 through June 3, batting .350 with nine doubles and four homers during the streak. On the campaign, he had four different hitting streaks of 16+ games, including two hitting streaks of 20+ games and was the only player in Majors with multiple hitting streaks above 20 games. No other player in the Majors had two hitting streaks of 16+ and the only organization with two hitting streaks above 16+ was Toronto (Vladimir Guerrero Jr.  & Santiago Espinal). He finished the season hitting safely in 132 of 160 games, setting a new franchise record for games with 1+ hit, surpassing Tommy Davis (129 in 1962), and finishing tied for 11th all-time in Major League history in games with 1+ hit, three behind the all-time leaders in Ichiro (2001), Derek Jeter (1999), Wade Boggs (1985), Chuck Klein (1930) and Rogers Hornsby (1922) who hit safely in 135 games. The Palm Beach, FL native led all National League shortstops in hits (194), runs (101), batting average (.298), OBP (.343), SLG (.466), OPS (.809), doubles (39), total bases (304), extra-base hits (64) steals (27), while ranking second in RBI (100) and fourth in homers (21).

The Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award is the top offensive honor in Major League Baseball. Coaches and managers of Major League teams vote for the players they feel are the best offensive producers at each position in the field in both the American and National Leagues. They base their selections on a combination of offensive statistics including batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, as well as the coaches’ and managers’ general impressions of a player’s overall offensive value. Managers and coaches are not allowed to vote for players on their own team.