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Andrew McCutchen Named the NL Player of the Week

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Andrew McCutchen has been named the National League Player of the Week for the week ending on August 9th. He hit .563/.652/1.063 last week, driving in eight runs and scoring seven times. He was also the NL Player of the Week at the end of May and has now won the award six times in his career. On the season, McCutchen is hitting .301/.398/.513, which has him ranked fifth in the NL in OPS.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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