SEATTLE, WA – Major League Baseball has announced that Seattle Mariners infielder Jorge Polanco has been selected as the American League Player of the Week for April 21-27. It is the first weekly award of Polanco’s career.
Polanco, 31, hit .471 (8×17) with 5 runs scored, 2 doubles, 4 home runs, 8 RBI and 2 walks in 5 games (4 starts) during the week, recording 22 total bases with a 1.844 OPS.
The switch-hitting infielder homered in 3 of his 4 starts, including a multi-homer game on April 26 vs. Miami. “Polo” went back-to-back with Julio Rodríguez to begin the game in a 14-0 win over the Marlins.
Polanco and Dylan Moore, who won AL Player of the Week for April 14-20, are the first Mariners to win back-to-back AL Player of the Week awards since Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr. on June 27 and July 4, 1998.
Overall this season, Polanco is batting .377 (26×69) with 10 runs, 4 doubles, 7 home runs, 20 RBI and 3 walks, getting on base at a .405 on-base percentage, slugging .739 with a 1.145 OPS in 20 games. His 1.145 OPS ranks 2nd in MLB (min. 75 plate appearances) behind only Aaron Judge-NYY (1.217 OPS).