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Andrew McCutchen Wins National League Player of the Week Award

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced on Monday afternoon that Andrew McCutchen was named the National League Player of the Week for the week of September 25 – October 1. This is the seventh time he has been named the NL Player of the Week and first time since August of 2015. He won twice in 2012, twice in 2014 and twice in 2015. McCutchen was named the NL Player of the Month back in June.

McCutchen hit .471/.526/1.000 in five games last week, with almost all of that damage coming during Tuesday’s game when he went 4-for-4 with a single, double, two homers and drove in eight runs. That was one RBI short of the franchise record for a game. McCutchen finished the season yesterday with a .279/.363/.486 slash line in 156 games, with 94 runs scored, 30 doubles, 28 homers, 88 RBIs and 73 walks. His home run total was his highest since he topped out at 31 homers in 2012.

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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