Hard Hittin’ Mark Whiten Memorial Player of the Week

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I feel like we don’t talk enough about the monster manbeast residing in Detroit. And he came thisclose to not being named the HHMWMPOW due to a couple of other strong efforts. I went back and forth the past few days on who would win this week’s award, and up until tonight I wasn’t sure. Let’s look at the men who made themselves nominees.

Adam Jones: .343, 4 HR, 5 RBI, 1.086 OPS, 3 steals, BUT no walks

Mike Trout: .462 (12 for 28), 2 HR, 7 RBI, 1.385 OPS, 4 steals, 2 BB.

Trout also went ahead and hit for the cycle since you all wanted to see it done the organic way by a 21 year old.

And then there was the winner. Miguel Cabrera. The stud of all studs in fantasy baseball and real baseball and all things in between. This monster went crazy to the tune of 12 for 26 (.462 batting average), six home runs, six walks (three of which were intentional), 15 RBI, 11 runs, and a berserk 1.755 OPS. If that’s not as Mark Whiten of a week that there is, then I want to be done playing this Mark Whiten game.

Here’s Miguel Cabrera’s week in homers. Keep in mind he had six other hits that weren’t homers. This is just the week in homers. If he did nothing else in a week except pick his nose and eat bacon and eggs, but he had these six homers, he’s still the Whiten Memorial Player of the Week.

Cabrera is probably on his way to another Triple Crown. That doesn’t get talked about enough in any baseball circles. It just kind of got glossed over. I mean sure, he won the MVP award. That’s great and all but the guy WON A TRIPLE CROWN! If Jay Bruce or Joey Votto or someone that mattered in my life more won a TRIPLE FREAKING CROWN I would probably just quit everything else in life because it would have rewarded me with such completeness.