Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In an 18-year career with the Seattle Mariners, primarily as a designated hitter, Martínez batted.312, with 309 career home runs and 1,261 runs batted in. [ 4 ] In 2020 , Major League Baseball allowed the use of the designated hitter for the National League (NL) in addition to the American League, expanding eligibility for the award to ...
A designated hitter reduces the need for late-inning pinch hitters. [70] Advocates of the designated hitter [71] [72] point to the extension of many careers it has enabled, and, in a few cases, created long, productive careers for players who are weak fielders or have a history of injuries, such as Cecil Fielder and David Ortiz.
The following is a list of Seattle Mariners professional baseball players and managers who have won various awards or other accolades from Major League Baseball or other organizations or have led the American League in some statistical category at the end of the season.
Shohei Ohtani was voted the majors’ best designated hitter on Thursday and joined David Ortiz as the only players to win the award three years in a row. Ohtani won the Edgar Martinez Outstanding ...
List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat; List of Major League Baseball players who completed an unassisted triple play; List of Major League Baseball no-hitters. List of Major League Baseball perfect games
Stanton is a .309 hitter with 10 homers and a 1.086 OPS in 25 career games at Dodger Stadium, where he grew up watching the Dodgers from the left-field bleachers.
Catcher Josh Gibson, whose career ended in 1946, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. [a] He batted .372 over 14 seasons, mostly with the Homestead Grays. In addition, he also holds the single-season record for highest batting average in major league history at .466 in 1943.
For the 2021 All-MLB Team, Ohtani is the only player to be named to both teams, first team and second team, in the same season (as a designated hitter and starting pitcher respectively). [115] He became the first pitcher, the first Japanese player and the first Angels player to win the Edgar Martínez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award. [116]