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unced on Thursday Game Calvin Ridley Jersey , with the top offensive players at each position in each league were recognized by MLB. Chaos reigned in the results, thanks to J.D. Martinez.The Red Sox star had a fantastic season, hitting .330/.429/.629 with 43 home runs, 37 doubles and a major league best 130 RBI. By all accounts Martinez was excellent with the bat, and deserved a Silver Slugger Award.But he got two Silver Slugger Awards.Martinez was voted as both the best designated hitter in the American League, and one of the three best outfielders, technically making him the first player ever to win two Silver Sluggers in one year. You’d think there would be a technicality that wouldn’t allow such a thing, especially since only 249 of Martinez’s plate appearance came as an outfielder, with 400 as DH.This faux pas is on the major league managers and coaches, who vote on the Silver Sluggers Calvin Ridley Womens Jersey , as they have since the inaugural honors in 1980.Among the other single winners were Mike Trout, earning his sixth Silver Slugger in the AL outfield, Jose Altuve winning his fifth straight Silver Slugger at second base, and a pair of National League four-timers in Paul Goldschmidt at first base and Nolan Arenado at third.Silver Slugger Award winnersPosAL playerTeamPosNL playerTeamPosAL playerTeamPosNL playerTeamSwing and a missGerman Marquez was named the top-hitting pitcher in the National League. In a year that saw the 23-year-old right-hander break out on the mound, Marquez was very good with the bat too, hitting .300 with a home run while leading the majors in hits by a pitcher (18). He was third among pitchers with a .650 OPS (minimum 20 plate appearances).Michael Lorenzen had a rightful claim to the Silver Slugger Award at pitcher, even as a reliever. Lorenzen led all major league pitchers with four home runs and 10 RBI, hitting .290/.333/.710. He had more total bases (22) in his 34 plate appearances than Marquez had (21) in his 65 PA.First-timersThere were six first-time Silver Slugger winners this season, all in the National League — Marquez, Javier Baez Youth Calvin Ridley Jersey , Trevor Story, J.T. Realmuto, David Peralta and Nick Markakis. For years, Super Bowl Media Day was the event that sports writers viewed as a necessary evil: It was big and loud and not an easy place to get work done, but it was a requirement of the job of covering the Super Bowl, because it was the one event that every player and coach from both teams attended.But then the NFL turned Media Day into Opening Night, held it 18 hours earlier on Monday night instead of Tuesday afternoon, and started allowing fans to buy tickets. It’s now a very different event.Although sports writers continue to hate it, the fans clearly love it. A crowd of 10,000 fans turned out on Monday night at the State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta Calvin Ridley Men Jersey , and they seemed to be having a great time. Tom Brady drew the loudest cheers, as Patriots fans easily outnumbered Rams fans, but it was a festival where there were football fans of every stripe: Large numbers of fans in Falcons jerseys, but also fans wearing the colors of almost every NFL team.For sports writers, the event is as hard as ever to get any actual work done, as it caters to the entertainment media more than the sports media, and when there are football questions to be asked the league now allows NFL Network personalities special access to the players, letting Michael Irvin or Willie McGinest jump the line to ask the players about the game before getting back to the important business of a morning radio host asking the players about their favorite music.But it can’t be denied that the fans in attendance seemed to have a great time.