Yoenis Cespedes was named the NL Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 7-13.
He led the majors with 12 RBI, led the NL with four home runs and was tied for the NL lead with four doubles while hitting .345 (10-29) with a .897 slugging percentage during the week. Cespedes won one AL Player of the Week award, July 9-15, 2012.
Cespedes is the fifth Met to win the award this year (Jacob deGrom for the week ending June 7, Lucas Duda and Noah Syndergaard shared the award for the week ending Aug. 2, and Bartolo Colon for the week ending Sept. 6). The last Mets to win consecutive Player of the Week award were David Wright and Jason Bay (the first two weeks of September of 2011).
Cespedes has hit a home run in eight of his last 12 games. He is tied for second in the majors with 77 extra-base hits. He now a career-high 102 RBI (had 100 RBI in 2014). Cespedes has 21 home runs since the All-Star break, the third-most in the majors. Since Sept. 1, he leads the majors in RBI (18), is tied for the major league lead in runs (15) and home runs (8) and is second in slugging (1.000). Since Aug. 1, he is tied for second in the majors in home runs with 16 and is first in the National League in RBI (41) and slugging percentage (.680).
Bottom line — he’s been pretty damn good.
Enjoy some videos below of Cespedes and his heroics as a Met.
