Who were the top performers in the first month of the MLB season, earning our MLB Players of the Month awards?
We’ve reached May 1 and the first month of the MLB season is over, meaning it’s time give out our MLB Players of the Month awards. The season goes by quick, and if you can believe it, we’ve reached the beginning of a new month. We’ve seen a lot so far during the first month and change of the MLB season.
A no-hitter. A crazy amount of rainouts. Crazy catches. The longest at-bat in MLB history. It seems like every night there’s something crazy going on and that’s what makes it great.
We saw debuts of top prospects in Gleyber Torres, Ronald Acuna Jr, and Shohei Ohtani do things that haven’t been done in baseball since Babe Ruth was pitching and hitting for the Boston Red Sox last century.
We’ve also seen a ton of injuries and probably the biggest split between have and have nots in the MLB that we’ve ever seen before. Teams are finally realizing it’s pointless being in the middle. You either go for it or you don’t.
You can’t win pennants in April, but you can certainly lose them.No playoff team last season was under .500 going into May. Going into May this year, Minnesota, Washington, and the Los Angeles Dodgers find themselves under .500 and dealing with injuries to key pieces of those clubs.
The 2018 season has gotten off to a fun start. Let’s take a look back at our MLB Players of the Month. Can these players sustain it and have dream seasons, or will it all come crashing down? To start, let’s go with the guy who replaced Derek Jeter.