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Mason Martin and Oneil Cruz Get Recognition for Their Offense Last Week

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Monday has been a nice day so far for Bristol first baseman Mason Martin and West Virginia shortstop Oneil Cruz. We featured both players in our top performers article this morning, then other accolades began to role in for them.

Martin and Cruz were both featured on the MLB Pipeline Prospect Team of the Week. Then Baseball America rated Cruz 4th and Martin 14th on their Top MLB Prospects Hot Sheet article. Finally, Martin took home the biggest award on the day, getting named as the Appalachian League Player of the Week.

Martin hit .375/.483/.958 in six games last week, hitting four homers and driving in ten runs. Cruz only played three games due to the All-Star break in the South Atlantic League, but he managed to pick up eight hits, including two homers. He also walked once, doubled and drove in five runs.

Perhaps the most surprising part of this article is who I haven’t mentioned yet. Oddy Nunez tossed a complete game (eight innings) no-hitter and six shutout innings last week. He didn’t win the Florida State League Pitcher of the Week, losing out to someone with seven shutout innings. The other pitcher struck out 13 batters, so it was clearly an impressive outing, but I would think the no-hitter alone would have done the trick for Nunez. Toss on six shutout innings and that should take away any doubt. He was our Player of the Week at least, so that will have to do for him.

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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