California League
Kyle Russell, Inland Empire
.529/.591/1.471, 9-for-17, 0 2B, 2 3B, 4 HR, 10 RBI, 7 R, 3 BB, 5 K, 2 SB
Kyle Russell earns California League Player of the Week honors for the third time coming into the third month of the season. Not surprisingly, he's among league leaders in hitting (fourth, .354), homers (first, 16), RBIs (tied for first, 53), on-base percentage (third, .448), slugging percentage (first, .692), extra-base hits (first, 31), runs scored (fifth, 42) and total bases (first, 137). This week was more of the same for the 23-year-old Dodgers prospect. He went 3-for-5 with two homers on a five-RBI week-opener in Lancaster, and he collected at least one RBI in each of the week's games. He tripled on Thursday, and did it again on Friday, adding a homer in that game. On Saturday, he homered again, and there's no telling what he might have done Sunday had he not had the day off.
Florida State League
Xavier Scruggs, Palm Beach
.368/.538/1.053, 7-for-19, 1 2B, 0 3B, 4 HR, 8 RBI, 7 R, 3 BB, 4 K, 2 SB
His teammates and coaches have probably forgiven Xavier Scruggs for sandwiching the week between an 0-for-4 start on Tuesday and an 0-for-3 finish on Sunday. Considering the Cardinals prospect homered in four straight games from Wednesday through Saturday -- even managing a roundtripper in a game in which he was walked three times -- his teammates and coaches would probably forgive Scruggs for just about anything. His Thursday longball was a grand slam, and Scruggs ended the week fourth in the Florida State League with 10 homers.
MiLB Official Site
Xavier Scruggs: Florida State League Player Of The Week
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