Ramirez versus DeRosa for Player of the Month
With three days left in August, the Cubs have two legit contenders for player of the month honors in August. The only player of the month winner so far for the best team in baseball has been Geovany Soto's rookie of the month honor in April, although he's certainly a strong contender to win it again in August. His only real competition is the July winner, Ian Stewart who has a slight edge in OPS and both have 20 RBI's in August.
All the NL contenders after the jump...
Name | HR | RBI | R | XBH | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
DeRosa | 7 | 24 | 22 | 17 | .378 | .442 | .768 | 1.210 |
Cameron | 8 | 18 | 17 | 14 | .366 | .458 | .744 | 1.202 |
Pujols | 7 | 20 | 16 | 16 | .372 | .481 | .721 | 1.202 |
Wigginton | 10 | 22 | 17 | 17 | .370 | .381 | .783 | 1.164 |
Ludwick | 9 | 23 | 21 | 17 | .359 | .413 | .739 | 1.153 |
M. Ramirez | 7 | 23 | 14 | 11 | .375 | .465 | .635 | 1.100 |
A. Ramirez | 6 | 26 | 20 | 14 | .325 | .418 | .639 | 1.057 |
Cameron also has seven stolen bases this month although I doubt that's valued too highly for the award. With Ryan Braun and CC Sabathia sweeping the July honors, I doubt they'd give it to another Brewer unless Cameron goes off the next three days. DeRosa has the OPS edge at the moment over everyone and is tied for the most extra base hits. He's tied for second in RBI's with Carlos Delgado, both of whom trail Aramis. DeRosa is second in runs scored to Matt Holliday's 28. So a little battle within the battle to end the weekend.
On the pitching side, Rich Harden is 3-0 with a 1.82 ERA this month but in just four starts and 24.2 IP. Sabathia and Tim Lincecum are both 4-0 so far with nearly double the innings and 1.37 ERA for Sabathia and 1.27 for Lincecum.
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