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Nick Kingham and Will Craig Get Recognition for Their Strong Performances

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Earlier this morning, we highlighted Nick Kingham and Will Craig in the title of our top performers article titled The 21. On Monday afternoon, their respective leagues handed them awards for their big weeks.

Kingham was named as the International League Pitcher of the Week for his outstanding performance on Thursday. He made it into the seventh inning with a perfect game intact, then finished with two singles and no walks over eight innings of work, striking out six batters.

Craig was named as the Eastern League Player of the Week. He had a power explosion at the plate, hitting five homers in the last week. He had three games with three hits, drove in a total of 12 runs and even drew four walks. He now has 11 homers on the season, which leads all Pirate minor leaguers.

More on each player in the article linked at the top.

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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