Royals outfielder/designated hitter Jorge Soler has been named the W.B. Mason American League Player of the Week for the week of Aug. 5–11. The announcement was made earlier today on MLB Network.
Soler, 27, hit .409 (9-for-22) with a .552 on-base percentage and 1.273 slugging percentage in seven games last week, with an American League-leading six home runs and 12 RBI, which matched Houston’s Yuli Gurriel for most in the Majors. Soler also led the American League with a 1.824 OPS.
In last Tuesday’s 6–2 win at Fenway Park, Soler recorded his third career multi-homer game, and his first in more than four years.