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Andrus wins Durrett Hardest Working Man Award
- Updated: January 5, 2017
ARLINGTON — Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus has been selected as the 2016 winner of the Richard Durrett Hardest Working Man Award, the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced on Thursday.
Andrus will be honored at the 2017 Dr. Pepper Texas Rangers Awards Dinner on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. CT at Gilley’s Dallas. Tickets for the dinner are on sale at texasrangers.com/awards.
This is the third year that the local BBWAA chapter has presented the award to a player who demonstrates significant improvement over the previous season or seasons. It is named in memory of Richard Durrett, who covered the Rangers for over a decade for the Dallas Morning News and ESPN Radio before his sudden passing on June 17, 2014, at the age of 38.
Andrus is coming off his best season, finishing with a career-high .302 average, eight home runs and …
