Kien Vu named Florida State League Player of the Week

For the 6th time this season the Cincinnati Reds had multiple players win the Player of the Week honors for their respective league. Outfielder Kien Vu, just in his second week of games as a professional, was named the Player of the Week for the Florida State League after his performance for the Daytona Tortugas in their series against the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels. Moises Castillo took the honors in the Dominican Summer League and we wrote all about his performance right here.

The Reds drafted Kien Vu out of Arizona State in the 9th round last month. He signed and headed to Goodyear where he spent a few weeks not playing in official games, but did play in the bridge league games (unofficial games in an unofficial league that consists of most of the teams who were in the Arizona Complex League). He then joined Daytona on August 7th and he went 0-10 in four games against Jupiter that first series he played in.

Getting to face the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels was apparently all he needed. In his first game of the series he picked up his first two professional hits and both of those hits were doubles. The next day he picked up another double, going 1-3. On Friday he added another double in his only at-bat, driving in two runs and drawing a walk.

Saturday’s contest saw him double two more times, drive in two more runs, and draw another walk. Vu would cap off the series on Sunday with his first non-double base hit of his career, going 1-3 with a single, walk, run, and an RBI.

In his five games played during the week the left-handed hitter hit .467/.600/.867 with six doubles, three walks, two pitches hit him, he scored five runs, and he drove in six. Vu even added in a stolen base for good measure.

You can see the college and professional stats for Kien Vu here.

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