Louisville Slugger has given the Silver Slugger award to the best hitter at each position in the American and National Leagues since 1980. Many prolific hitters have graced the Boston Red Sox's roster since then, and a few of them have taken home multiple Silver Slugger trophies.
Sluggers and home run hitters have been a huge part of the Red Sox's game during their successful years, thanks to the friendly dimensions of Fenway Park. Louisville Slugger and FanSided have partnered to share 2025's finalists and winners, so before this year's awards are announced, we'll look back on some notable notable former Red Sox hitters of the past.
These four players have won the most Silver Sluggers in Red Sox franchise history. Some of these players have also won with other clubs, but we'll examine just their Red Sox victories here.
4 Red Sox players with the most Silver Slugger awards in team history
David Ortiz
David Ortiz won a staggering seven Silver Sluggers during his 14 year tenure with the Red Sox. Ortiz began his MLB career with the Minnesota Twins in 1997, but didn't break out as a hitter until he signed with Boston in 2003.
Ortiz was a career .290/.386/.570 hitter with a .956 OPS and 483 home runs with the Red Sox. He won his third Silver Slugger in his fourth year with the organization in 2006, when he also led the AL with 54 home runs and 134 RBI. Big Papi won his seventh Silver Slugger in 2016, his spectacular final season before his retirement. He knocked an MLB-leading 48 doubles that season, and led the league with a .620 slugging percentage and 1.021 OPS.
Since his retirement, Ortiz's number was retired by the Red Sox and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot. Of course, he wears a Red Sox cap on his plaque.
Wade Boggs
Wade Boggs, another Hall of Famer, is one of the winningest Silver Sluggers of all time with eight trophies in his case. He won six of those during his 11 years with Boston.
In the earlier years of his career, Boggs was a perennial Triple Crown contender, and led MLB in batting average and on base percentage in 1985, '85, '86 and '88. He won four consecutive Silver Sluggers from 1986-89, and collected at least 8.1 bWAR in the first three of those years.
Boggs was never a prolific home run hitter, but he broke out for a career-high 24 homers in 1987. He never approached that number again in his career — the second-most he ever hit was in 1994 when he hit 11 bombs with the Yankees. Boggs hit more than his fair share of doubles, however, clocking over 40 in eight of his 11 seasons with Boston.
Manny Ramirez
Manny Ramirez spent eight years with the Red Sox from 2001-08 and won a Silver Slugger in each of his first six years. He also won another in 1995 when he played for Cleveland, the team that drafted him out of high school.
Ramirez earned 11-straight All-Star nominations from 1998-2008, covering his entire career in Boston. He batted .312/.411/.588 with a .999 OPS during his Red Sox career. In 2004, Ramirez led the AL in homers with 43, slugging percentage (.613) and OPS (1.009).
Ramirez regressed sightly at the plate after he departed the Red Sox organization on sour terms in 2008, and his history with performance enhancing substances may have tainted his career in the eyes of Silver Slugger voters. It will also be a while before he's ever enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Still, he's one of the winningest Silver Sluggers in Red Sox history, and was a huge part in breaking the Curse in 2004, and Sox fans love him for it.
Xander Bogaerts
Xander Bogaerts is the Sox's second-most recent Silver Slugger winner, and he won five times over his 10-year career in Boston.
Bogaerts has never led the AL or MLB in a single offensive metric, but he's still a career .292/.356/.458 hitter with a .814 OPS with the Red Sox. He hit over 30 doubles in each of his five Silver Slugger winning seasons. In 2019, the best season of his career, Bogaerts knocked 52 doubles and 33 homers, both career-highs, and he won a Silver Slugger, earned an All-Star nomination and placed fifth in the MVP race.