Ethan O’Donnell named FSL Player of the Month

The Florida State League season has been over for a month, with Daytona playing their final game on September 10th. But this afternoon the league announced their Player of the Month for September and the honor for the week-and-a-half of play went to Tortugas outfielder Ethan O’Donnell.

The center fielder had hits in seven of the nine games  he played in, but got on base in all nine of them. During the “month” he hit .364/.475/.818 with a double, triple, and four home runs. He homered in four straight games from September 3rd through September 7th. O’Donnell scored 10 runs, drove in 14, walked four times, was hit by a pitch three times, and he stole three bases in his nine games.

That stretch in September was mostly a continuation of what he had done in August with Daytona. After playing in four games out in Arizona after being drafted in the 6th round out of the University of Virginia, the Cincinnati Reds promoted him from the complex league club to Daytona where he played in his first game with the Tortugas on August 6th. He started out slowly with Daytona, going 0-10 in his first three games. Things picked up after that and he hit .432/.523/.568 in the final 11 games of the month. That helped earn him tine Florida State League’s Player of the Week for the final full week of August.

Overall in his time with Daytona he played in 23 games, picking up 94 plate appearances and hit an impressive .350/.447/.600. That came with four doubles, two triples, and four home runs.

Here are the other Reds minor league players who were named Player of the Month for their respective league: