Every week the MLB awards one player from both the National and American League with the honor of player of the week, and for the week of July 30 to August 5 the best player in the National League was your own A.J. Burnett.This past week Burnett made two starts one of which he was just four outs away from no hitting the Cubs and was honestly one of the best pitching performances I have seen this year in all of baseball even if it was the cubs. He went on to finish that game as a one hit shutout. The next game against the Reds he wasn't much worse although he allowed two two runs he went 8 2/3 before he allowed a few base-runners and basically forced Hurdle to pull him.
Overall over the past week Burnett finished with 17 2/3 innings pitches 4 hits an ERA of 0.50 and he also added 15 strikeouts to the mix. This was not a real tough decision for the MLB as Burnett's performance was just so dominate that he could not be denied this award. I for one would like to take this moment to personally thank the Yankees for not wanting this man because I can tell you that we sure do.
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