/r/baseball Players of the Week - Week 20: Yankees' Ace J.A. Happ is liking his time in New York City, Mets' All-Star Jacob deGrom continues his dominance with a pair of wins (finally), and Future Hall of Famer Ronald Acuña Jr. takes the baseball world by storm with a historic week!

Feature

Hello r/baseball! Welcome to r/MLBAwardVoters' Players of the Week Feature! We have 30 Voters (one from every team) and we vote each week on the best hitting and pitching performances in both Leagues.

We vote each week on Monday and crown the Players of the Weeks on Tuesday.

Stats are from Baseball-Reference.com's handy Daily Gamelog Finder, which will aggregate statistics from last week (August 13th through August 19th).

[Mobile-Friendly Week 20 Results](http://mlbawards.xyz/results](http://mlbawards.xyz/results)

American League Hitter of the Week: José Ramírez

Name	Votes	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1st - José Ramírez	11	23	7	8	1	3	7	4	2	0	.348	.464	.783	1.247
2nd - Miguel Andujar	4	29	5	11	5	3	9	0	3	0	.379	.379	.862	1.241
T3rd - Tyler Austin	3	16	3	8	0	2	3	1	6	0	.500	.500	.875	1.375
T3rd - Whit Merrifield	3	28	4	12	1	1	6	4	5	2	.429	.500	.571	1.071
4th - Nick Castellanos	2	28	8	11	3	2	10	5	6	0	.393	.485	.714	1.199
5th - Curtis Granderson	1	15	4	6	2	1	4	4	2	0	.400	.526	.733	1.260

American League Expert: Tribe third baseman José Ramírez leads the American League in HR and SB, well on his way to a 30/30 season.

National League Hitter of the Week: Future Hall of Famer Ronald Acuña Jr.

Name	Votes	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1st - Ronald Acuña Jr.	19	28	11	13	2	4	9	5	4	3	.464	.559	.964	1.523
T2nd - Justin Turner	2	26	8	13	3	3	7	3	4	1	.500	.567	.962	1.528
T2nd - Paul Goldschmidt	2	23	5	12	1	2	7	5	3	1	.522	.607	.826	1.433

Cooperstown Alert™: Future Hall of Famer Ronald Acuña Jr. had a historic two weeks, having hit homers in 5 straight and leading off both pieces of a doubleheader with a big fly.

In Case You Missed It: Future Hall of Famer Ronald Acuña Jr. helps out my friend Jeremy (the headset tech) during a Replay Challenge last night in Pittsburgh.

American League Pitcher of the Week: J.A. Happ

Name	Votes	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	WHIP	BAbip	SO9	SO/W
1st - J.A. Happ	8	12.1	8	2	5	12	2	1.46	49	1.054	.207	8.8	2.4
2nd - Mike Leake	5	8.0	2	0	1	6	0	0.00	27	0.375	.100	6.8	6.0
T3rd - Jaime Barria	2	10.0	13	2	2	12	1	1.80	41	1.500	.462	10.8	6.0
T3rd - Trevor Cahill	2	7.0	1	0	1	7	0	0.00	22	0.286	.071	9.0	7.0
T3rd - Rick Porcello	2	7.0	2	1	0	10	1	1.29	23	0.286	.083	12.9	∞
T4th - Jose Leclerc	1	4.0	1	0	0	8	0	0.00	13	0.250	.200	18.0	∞
T4th - Gerrit Cole	1	6.0	5	1	0	12	0	1.50	22	0.833	.500	18.0	∞
T4th - Mike Clevinger	1	11.0	12	2	7	11	2	1.64	49	1.727	.345	9.0	1.6

Great Trade? The Team From the Bronx made what is becoming a fantastic trade with J.A. Happ, having made a personal adjustment in the process.

National League Pitcher of the Week: Jacob deGrom

Name	Votes	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	BF	WHIP	BAbip	SO9	SO/W
1st - Jacob deGrom	11	16.1	12	2	2	21	1.10	59	0.857	.333	11.6	10.5
2nd - Mike Foltynewicz	8	15.0	9	1	3	16	0.60	54	0.800	.257	9.6	5.3
3rd - Jhoulys Chacin	2	13.0	7	0	2	13	0.00	49	0.692	.219	9.0	6.5
4th - Clayton Kershaw	1	15.0	8	2	1	16	1.20	53	0.600	.222	9.6	16.0

Pitcher Wins Are Stupid: Mets' ace and now clean-shaven Jacob deGrom is 7-7, but USA Today thinks that he is a front-runner for the NL Cy Young Award.

[Mobile-Friendly Week 20 Results](http://mlbawards.xyz/results](http://mlbawards.xyz/results)

Posted Aug 21, 2018, 2:12 PM UTC · edited

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