MLB Player of the Week: Week 2

It has been an amazing feeling to have baseball back. The first week of play has offered some great performances, especially by some young rookies. In my opinion there were several candidates for this weeks player of the week, including Nebraska's own Alex Gordon from Kansas City, who his two home runs in a three game sweep of the potent Tigers, he also had a clean diving grab and throw to keep the Tigers from coming back to win in extra innings in the first game of the series; however, we're choose a player with no affiliation to Nebraska. Another candidate could be Carlos Gomez of the Minnesota Twins. In his first game for the twins this year he went 3 for 2, with 2 R and 2 SB. However, even though he held decent stats the rest of the week, it wasn't as impressive as his first game. Then there is this weeks choice for player of the week. Even though I would prefer to avoid repeating positions two weeks in a row, but this line is too good to be denied.



Last night Johnny Cueto, the 22 year old from the Dominican Republic made his major league debut for the Cincinnati Reds and pitched one of the three greatest games of any major league debut. Cueto's line was 7.0 IP 1 H 1 ER 0 BB 10 SO 1.29 ER. This kid was perfect through five until Justin Upton hit the only hit, which happened to be a solo home run. I've posted the highlights from the game from ESPN with this post, and you should check it out because his stuff is nasty. The most incredible part it this line is the 10 Ks and 0 walks. He threw a total of 92 pitches, and 68 of those were strikes. That is crazy. He fanned Eric Brynes all three times he saw him, as well as basically everyone else on the team. On top of that, this time last year, Cueto was pitching in A ball...talk about burning through the minors. He has moved so fast through the farm system that no one saw this kid coming. When Dusty Baker, the Reds manager, said Cueto was the most impressive player he had seen all spring, people were like, "Cueto who?" He wasn't even in the database of players eligible for Fantasy, and doesn't have a player profile on ESPN. I'm pretty sure all of that will change pretty quickly. The Reds definitely knew about Cueto this entire time since for the last two years he was named the Minor League Pitcher of the Year for the Reds. Even though I am a little scared of having this kids stuff in our division, I cannot deny him the recognition he deserves. So Ladies and Gentlemen, the MLB Player of the Week: Johnny Cueto. Check out the video below.



Cueto Impressive in Debut



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