LAS VEGAS -- Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani won the 2024 Hank Aaron Award and the 2024 Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award at the All-MLB Awards Show presented by MGM Rewards live from The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Thursday night.
Ohtani and Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts were also named to the All-MLB First Team while Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez was named to the All-MLB Second Team.
Ohtani became the first Dodger player to win the Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award and the second player ever to win the award four consecutive years (2021-24), joining Hall of Famer David Ortiz, who won the award five consecutive seasons (2003-07). Ohtani finished the season with a .310 batting average, 54 homers, 59 steals, 134 runs and 130 RBI. He became the first player in Major League history with 50+ homers and 50+ steals in the same season while becoming the first player to notch 400 total bases since 2001.
He broke the Los Angeles Dodgers’ record for runs scored in a season with 134 and finished among the Major League leaders in extra-base hits (99, 1st), runs (1st), total bases (411, 1st), hits (197, 4th), homers (54, 2nd), RBI (130, 2nd), batting average (.310, 5th), OBP (.390, 5th), slugging percentage (.646, 2nd) and OPS (1.036, 2nd). He is the first player ever to win the award in both leagues and he is now third all-time with four outstanding designated hitter awards, trailing only Ortiz (eight-time winner, 2003-07, 2011, 2013, 2016) and the namesake Edgar Martinez (five-time winner, 1995, 1997-98, 2000-01).
In his first full campaign as the designated hitter for the Dodgers, he led all Major League DHs in all but one offensive category (walks), which included plate appearances (731), at-bats (636), runs, hits (197), doubles (38), triples (7), homers, extra-base hits (99), total bases, RBI, batting average, OBP, slugging percentage and OPS.
His historic season ranks among the best all-time at the designated hitter position as he set new marks for a single season in runs (second all-time, Martinez, 117 in 1996), homers (second, Ortiz, 47 in 2006), extra-base hits (second, Ortiz, 87 in 2016), total bases (second, Ortiz, 336 in 2005) and stolen bases (second, Ohtani, 25 in 2021) while ranking second all-time in a single season in hits (first, Paul Molitor, 200 in 1996), fourth in RBI (first, Martinez, 143 in 2000), second in slugging percentage (first, Travis Hafner, .649 in 2006) and seventh in OPS (first, Martinez, 1.120 in 1995).