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Mitch Keller is Named as the National League Player of the Week

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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller has been named as the National League Player of the Week for the week of May 8-14.

Keller started on Monday against the Colorado Rockies at PNC Park. He tossed a complete game shutout on four hits, one walk and eight strikeouts.

He made his second start of the week on Sunday, pitching on the road against the Baltimore Orioles. He threw seven shutout innings yesterday, finishing with four hits, no walks and 13 strikeouts.

Those starts left him with a 5-1, 2.38 record in nine starts, with a 2.63 FIP, a 1.02 WHIP and 69 strikeouts in 56.2 innings this year.

He ranks sixth in the National League in ERA, seventh in WHIP and third in strikeouts.

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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