Jarren Duran selected to 2024 All-MLB Second Team

BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran has been named to the 2024 All-MLB Second Team. Selections were determined by a combination of fan voting and voting from a panel of media members, broadcasters, former players, and other officials.

Duran is the fourth Red Sox player to earn All-MLB Team honors since the award’s inception in 2019, joining Xander Bogaerts (2019 First Team), Mookie Betts (2019 Second Team), and Rafael Devers (2021 Second Team). In 2024, Duran was a finalist for a Silver Slugger Award and a Gold Glove Award, and he is the Red Sox’ nominee for the Heart & Hustle Award, which will be announced by the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association on Friday, November 22.

In 2024, Duran ranked fifth among Major Leaguers in wins above replacement according to Baseball-Reference (8.7), behind only Aaron Judge (10.8), Bobby Witt Jr. (9.4), Shohei Ohtani (9.2), and Gunnar Henderson (9.1). He is one of only nine Red Sox position players ever to record a Baseball-Reference WAR of 8.7 or higher in a season, joining Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Rico Petrocelli, Fred Lynn, Wade Boggs, and Mookie Betts.

Duran made his first career Opening Day roster in 2024 and started each of Boston’s first 117 games of the season, en route to leading the Red Sox in games played (160), runs scored (111), hits (191), extra-base hits (83), doubles (48), triples (14), and stolen bases (34). The left-handed hitter became the first player in Major League history with at least 10 triples, 20 home runs, 30 steals, and 40 doubles in a season, though he was later joined by Witt. Duran led the Majors in doubles and tied for the lead in triples; prior to him, the last two players to lead MLB in both categories in a season were Lou Brock in 1968 and Stan Musial in 1948.

In addition to leading Major League outfielders in assists (12), Duran ranked second among all players in defensive runs saved (23), having made 89 starts in center field and 71 in left field. He was 34-for-41 in steal attempts (82.9%), joining Jacoby Ellsbury (2011) and Mookie Betts (2018) as the only Red Sox ever to record at least 30 steals and 80 extra-base hits in a season. Eighty of Duran’s 83 extra-base hits came out of the leadoff spot, 17 more than any other player in 2024 and the third most in Red Sox history behind Nomar Garciaparra (85 in 1997) and Mookie Betts (84 in 2018). Duran recorded 20 extra-base hits in Boston’s first plate appearance of the game, most in the Majors in 2024 and the most by a Red Sox player in at least the Expansion Era (since 1961).

A first-time All-Star in 2024, Duran earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Midsummer Classic. After entering the game as a defensive replacement in the top of the fifth inning, he broke a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fifth with a two-out, two-run home run as part of the American League’s 5-3 victory. Duran was the youngest Red Sox player to homer in an All-Star Game since Fred Lynn in 1975, while he joined Ted Williams (1941) and Bobby Doerr (1943) as the only Red Sox to hit a game-winning home run in an All-Star Game.