Dodgers outfielder Shortstop Mookie Betts is off to an unbelievable begin to his 2024 season, and on Friday he was honored with the Nationwide League Participant of the Month award for April.
Betts hit .368/.477/.624 with a 211 wRC+, six house runs, and eight stolen bases within the opening month of the season, which additionally included six video games in March. Betts leads the majors in FanGraphs WAR (2.8), Baseball Reference WAR (3.1), wRC+ (211), wOBA (.476), OPS (1.101), OPS+ (209), on-base proportion, batting common, hits (46). ), walks (26), and runs scored (29).
His 72 hits are greater than anybody else in main league historical past earlier than Might 1, and had been one shy of a Dodgers document for many by way of the primary 32 video games of the season. behind solely Babe Herman for Brooklyn in 1930.
That is the third profession award of the month for Betts, with two of them coming within the final three months, having additionally gained final August. Considerably surprisingly, Betts didn’t win participant of the month throughout his 2018 AL MVP season. His month-to-month honor whereas with the Pink Sox got here in July 2016.
Betts (August) and Freddie Freeman (Might) gained the participant of the month award final 12 months for the Dodgers, the primary honors for the crew since Cody Bellinger in April 2019.
With 22 begins at shortstop and 10 begins at second base within the opening month of the season, Betts is the primary Dodgers shortstop to win the participant of the month award.
