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Fightin Phils Knapp Caps off Stretch with Eastern League Player of the Week Honors

Published on August 10, 2015 under Eastern League (EL1)
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Reading Fightin Phils catcher Andrew Knapp has been selected as Eastern League Player of the Week for the period of August 3rd-August 9th. Knapp becomes the fifth Fightins player this season to capture Player of the Week or Pitcher of the Week honors.

In six games for the Fightins last week, Knapp hit .600 (15-for-25) with four home runs, two doubles, one triple, 13 RBIs, and nine runs scored. The 23-yeard old also recorded four walks and a 1.240 slugging percentage over the same period. He also had at least one hit and drove in at least one run in each game he played last week and had multiple hits in five of those games.

Knapp led all Eastern League players in batting average (.600), hits (15), extra-base hits (7), total bases (31), homers (4), RBIs (13), on-base percentage (.655), slugging percentage (1.240) and OPS (1.895) last week and tied for the lead in runs scored (9). He was also ranked among the weekly league leaders in triples (1-tied 2nd), doubles (2-tied 8th) and walks (4-tied 9th).

The California native, who is hitting .403 with 17 doubles, six home runs and 40 RBIs in 34 games for the Fightins since being promoted from Class-A Clearwater, was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 2013 draft out of the University of California.

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