49.6 F
Pittsburgh

Andrew McCutchen Named National League Player of the Month for June

Published:

Major League Baseball named Andrew McCutchen the National League Player of the Month for June. It is the fifth time in his career he has been named the NL Player of the Month and the third time it has happened in June. He also won twice in 2012(June, July), once in June 2014 and again in August 2015. That 2015 award was the last one for a player from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

McCutchen hit .411/.505/.689 in 26 games last month. He had five doubles, one triple and six homers, with 22 runs scored, while driving in 23 runs. He came into the month with a .223/.301/.404 slash line in his first 54 games of the season and finished with a .283/.369/.495 line. His .866 OPS is 49 points higher than the second best on the team.. McCutchen reached base safely in 24 of 26 games last month.

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.

Related Articles

Article Drop

Latest Articles