{"id":667335,"date":"2026-04-07T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:16:20","slug":"astros-slugger-yordan-alvarez-named-al-player-of-the-week-after-electric-start-to-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667335\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez named AL Player of the Week after electric start to 2026 MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Major League Baseball announced today that Yordan Alvarez has been named American League Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The honor covers the week of March 30 through April 5. During that span, Alvarez hit .471 (8-for-17) in six games, with two doubles, three home runs, seven runs scored, and eight RBIs, while posting a 1.733 OPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For the season, Alvarez entered today leading the majors in OPS (1.478), slugging percentage (.900), and on-base percentage (.578). He is also tied with teammate Jose Altuve for first in both walks (12) and runs scored (10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In his 10 games played overall in 2026, Alvarez is hitting .400 (12-for-30) with four home runs and 10 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This marks the fourth time Alvarez has been named AL Player of the Week. The last Astros players to win the award were Alvarez and Alex Bregman, who were named AL co-Players of the Week for August 5\u201311, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Alvarez has also won the AL Player of the Month Award twice (June 2022 and September 2023).<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Major League Baseball announced today that Yordan Alvarez has been named American League Player of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,19,4,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-667335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116360549833815011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}