Hitting or pitching? What’s your pleasure?
Below, we take a look at some potential candidates. The general preference has been to go with two hitting performances, two starting pitching and one relief pitching, but this is not etched in stone if there turn out to be an excess of candidates. Executive judgment i.e. me may be exercised as appropriate. Nomination process is going to be the safe as for Play of the Year. In case you’d forgotten, here’s how it works.
- Go to the comments section.
- If your choice is already mentioned there, give it a “rec”.
- If your choice is NOT mentioned, copy paste the FULL description, e.g. “Ketel Marte, June 2” and leave that as a new comment. Feel free to explain your reasoning after that.
- You should feel free to mention other candidates not listed, but should probably do so in the same format, i.e. Player name, date
- Duplicate nominations will get deleted.
- On Wednesday, I’ll tally up the recs, and use those as a guide towards a list of five or so nominees, in both the regular and post-season categories.
Hitting
- Ketel Marte, June 2: 3-for-3, DBL, two HR, BB, HBP, +65.4% WP
- Jake McCarthy, July 27: 5-for-5, R, RBI, SB
- Eugenio Suarez, July 30: 4-for-6, four R, three HR, five RBI
- Adrian Del Castillo, August 9: 3-for-4, walkoff HR, great pitch calling in second MLB game
- Pavin Smith, September 8: 3-for-4, three R, three HR, BB, eight RBI
Starting Pitching
- Zac Gallen, May 7: 6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 6 SO , +37.2% WP
- Brandon Pfaadt, July 21: 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 SO, +46.6% WP
- Ryne Nelson, July 30: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 9 SO
- Zac Gallen, September 4: 6 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 8 SO
- Brandon Pfaadt, September 19: 7 IP, 1 R, 0 BB, 12 SO
Relief Pitching
- Kevin Ginkel, April 16: Enters 10th inning of 11-11 game, strands Manfred Man, gets W
- Joe Mantiply, May 8: Enters one out in ninth, tying run on third, saves game, +46.5% WP
- Justin Martinez, May 10: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 SO
- Ryne Nelson, May 22: 5 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 5 SO, +26.3% WP
- A.J. Puk, August 4: Enters one out in ninth, tying run on third, saves game, +46.1% WP