“His approach at the plate has been amazing,” GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies one month into Joey Meneses’s sort of out of nowhere run in his first stint in the big leagues following ten seasons in the minors, Mexico, and Japan.
Meneses put up, “72 hits through his first 56 games,” which were, “the most by any rookie through his first 56 games in franchise history (MON/WSH),” as the club noted in their Season in Review.
The first baseman/outfielder, “… led Washington in hits (72), HR (13) & RBI[s] (34) [after] being called up on 8/2.