{"id":503336,"date":"2026-03-30T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/delauter-and-stewart-players-of-the-week-nasim-nunez-achieves-play-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:40:45","slug":"delauter-and-stewart-players-of-the-week-nasim-nunez-achieves-play-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/delauter-and-stewart-players-of-the-week-nasim-nunez-achieves-play-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLauter and Stewart, Players of the Week; Nasim N\u00fa\u00f1ez achieves Play of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>NEW YORK.<\/strong> \u2014 Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians and Sal Stewart of the Cincinnati Reds were named Players of the Week in the American League and National League, respectively, while Dominican Nasim N\u00fa\u00f1ez of the Washington Nationals starred in the Play of the Week.\n\nYou may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/bravos-envian-al-prospecto-didier-fuentes-a-triple-a-y-suben-a-martin-perez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bravos send prospect Didier Fuentes to Triple-A and call up Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez<\/a>\n\nDeLauter had an explosive start to the season, batting 6-for-17 with four home runs, five RBIs, and five runs scored in his first four games of 2026. In addition, he recorded a 1.059 slugging percentage and a .353 on-base percentage, leading Major League Baseball in home runs and total bases reached with 18, as well as tying for extra-base hits with four.\n\nFor his part, Stewart also shone offensively by batting 7-10 in three games, with two RBIs, three doubles, three walks and two runs scored. The player finished the week with an impressive slugging of 1.300 and an on-base percentage of .769, tying for the lead in extra-base hits in the Majors and ranking second in OPS with 2.069.\n\nOn the defensive side, N\u00fa\u00f1ez took the spotlight by making a spectacular play at shortstop during the weekend, when he robbed the Chicago Cubs of a hit with an action that was selected as the best play of the week in the Major Leagues.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Power Ranking of Latino Hitters<\/h3>\n\n\nIn other news, MLB Espa\u00f1ol presented its Power Ranking of Latino hitters to start the 2026 season, headed by Venezuelan Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., followed by Dominican Juan Soto and also Dominican Vladimir Guerrero Jr..\n\nThe list is completed by Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez, Junior Caminero, Fernando Tatis Jr., Ketel Marte, Yordan \u00c1lvarez, Maikel Garc\u00eda and Julio Rodr\u00edguez, who were selected taking into account their history, recent performance and projection for the 2026 Major League season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK. \u2014 Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians and Sal Stewart of the Cincinnati Reds were named Players of the Week in the American League and National League, respectively, while Dominican Nasim N\u00fa\u00f1ez of the Washington Nationals starred in the Play of the Week. You may be interested in:Bravos send prospect Didier Fuentes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-503336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26Wk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/4NCI7UFKEVG25DND6D6KJUJ2NA.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/4NCI7UFKEVG25DND6D6KJUJ2NA.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}