Pollock ’07 Garners NL Player of the Month Honors
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – After a dominant month of April for one of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) most dominant teams, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder A.J. Pollock – a 2007 Vermont Mountaineer – was named the National League’s Player of the Month for the first time in his career.
Pollock snuck in three homers on Monday -- the last day of April -- to become the NL's co-leader with nine, and he's since hit his 10th, off Clayton Kershaw on Tuesday. Pollock has enjoyed the thrill of the 2018 campaign with the first-place D-backs, who entered Wednesday with a six-game lead in the NL West.
Over the first month, including three games in March, Pollock hit .291/.351/.670 and tallied 24 RBIs, third most in the NL, thanks in large part to his new role in the cleanup position, which has served Arizona well.
Pollock was a key cog for Vermont during the franchise’s second championship campaign back in 2007. The Notre Dame alum and Hebron, Conn., native led the NECBL with 15 doubles that summer and ranked in the league’s top-sox in batting average (.348) and steals (13).
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The New England Collegiate Baseball League is a wooden bat college summer league that fields teams in all six New England states. Partially funded by Major League Baseball, the NECBL started play in 1994 and is enjoying its 25th-year anniversary season this summer. The New England League has sent nearly 150 alumni to the Major Leagues and has had an alum drafted in the first round of the MLB Draft in 10 straight seasons. For continuing coverage of the NECBL, visit NECBL.com and follow the league on Twitter, Instagram and on Facebook.
