The Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game
Jay Bruce is riding a career-best walk rate, a spate of normalized BABIP, and a multi-week period of seeing pitches that look like beachballs, and on Monday night the Cincinnati Reds RF kept his hot streak rolling. Bruce launched a go-ahead 2-run dinger, doubled, and raised his season OPS to a not-too-shabby .821 on the evening, and did all of it with the eyes of the trade world upon him. Whether or not Bruce gets moved by the July 31st trade deadline, it's pretty clear that he's put the knee injury and awful 2014 season firmly in his rear-view mirror, and he's back to bashing baseballs the way we all have seen in the past.