DETROIT -- The Tigers' season ended three weeks ago, but Dixon Machado hasn't stopped hitting. The shortstop prospect, who went straight from the Tigers' lineup to winter ball, has been named the Venezuelan Winter League's Player of the Week for his work with Leones del Caracas.
According to a release from the league, Machado was selected for the award by media votes.
Machado, who spent much of September in Detroit's lineup after Jose Iglesias' right middle finger contusion cost him the final month of the season, has been on a tear for Caracas, batting 22-for-57 (.