Apr
23
2012

MMO Player Of The Week: Kirk Nieuwenhuis

An article by Tyler Moore

The MetsMerizedOnline Player of the Week for this week has shown he has a great impact on this team. This week includes the series against the Atlanta Braves and the weekend (2 of the 4 games) series against the San Francisco Giants for a total of 5 games. Here is our MMO Player of the Week for 4/16/2012-4/22/2012:

Through the use of the scorecard, let’s take a look at how Kirk Nieuwenhuis did this week:

G	AB	H	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG
5	19	7	6	2	0	1	2	3	4	.368

This week, rookie Kirk Nieuwenhuis got the Player Of The Week honors. While not bringing in many runs (2 runs batted in), he scored 7 and got on base quite a bit. He put himself in scoring position right away with two doubles and also had a home run.

Honorable Mentions

These players, although not winning the Player of the Week award, had a very strong showing this week and deserve to be recognized. We will also show how strong a showing they had through the use of the scorecard.

David Wright

G	AB	H	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG
5	20	6	1	1	0	0	3	3	5	.300

Jason Bay

G	AB	H	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG
5	20	6	5	1	0	2	2	2	5	.300

Daniel Murphy

G	AB	H	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG
5	22	8	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	.364

Mike Pelfrey

G	IP	W	L	SV	R	ER	BB	K	AVG	WHIP
1	8.0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	.207	0.88

Dillon Gee

G	IP	W	L	SV	R	ER	BB	K	AVG	WHIP
1	7.0	1	0	0	1	1	1	5	.160	0.71

Not So Hot

The Not So Hot area mentions a few players who did not have a good week this week.

Johan Santana

Frank Francisco

R.A. Dickey

Lucas Duda

Player Of The Week Scoreboard

This area shows the scoreboard of the Players of the Week, and who has won already this season and how many times.

David Wright – 1

Kirk Nieuwenhuis – 1

Trivia

To finish off the Player of the Week announcement each week, I’ll be asking you a trivia question. The answer will be announced during the next Player of the Week announcement, as well as the first person who answered correctly. Another question will then be asked. Last Week’s Answer is: Rick White. No one got the answer correct. So here is this week’s question:

Who did the Mets beat for their first win?

About the Author: Tyler Moore

Tyler is a lifelong Mets fan and tries to attend a few Mets games each season. Among the most notable games he's attended are Mike Piazza's first game in 1998, Todd Pratt's postseason homer game in 1999, and Mike Piazza's last game as a Met in 2005. He's been blogging about the Mets since 2009. He also Co-Created and Co-Hosts the Mets Madness Podcast.

7 Comments + Add Comment

Peter R. April 23, 2012 at 8:25 am

Nice week for Nieuwenhuis. May there be many more!
- Mr North Jersey April 23, 2012 at 12:12 pm
  
  Ditto.
Alex68 April 23, 2012 at 8:32 am

Damn it, i missed out of ike davis who is STRUGGLING bad… Could’ve made the case for jason bay but Capt kirk was just too outstanding…
This week my prediction of POTW is:

Daniel Murphy

To answer your question, not sure if you mean overall or this year or when, but the mets won their first game of their existant 50 years from today April 23, 1962. after losing 9 straight games to open the season the casey stangel led mets beat the PIRATES 9-1.. Jay Hook got the victory…
- Tyler M. April 23, 2012 at 8:43 am
  
  Was referring to overall, and correct on the Pirates! I didn’t even realize until after I put on the question that it happened 50 years ago today, so that was a nice coincidence.
- Alex68 April 23, 2012 at 9:22 am
  
  Tyler, i figured that you posted the question based on the same date.. Always nice when you coincide with something like that huh? Anyways, good job on the articles, keep up the good work.. It’s always good to get trivias here and then..
Hoegy April 23, 2012 at 9:32 am

Atlanta. Actually swept them. Trick question
kevin April 23, 2012 at 12:14 pm

Kirk would of been my hands down choice too.

NL East Standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Braves	23	18	.561	-
Nationals	23	19	.548	0.5
Phillies	20	22	.476	3.5
Mets	16	24	.400	6.5
Marlins	11	31	.262	12.5

Last updated: 05/18/2013

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