KT foreign pitcher William Cuevas, who won 5 games last month, was selected as the Monthly Most Valuable Player (MVP).
On the 11th, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced, 메이저놀이터“Cuevas was finally selected as the August MVP of the Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League.”
Cuevas earned a total score of 44.40 points with 25 out of 30 votes from reporters (83.3%) and 23,562 out of 390,207 votes from fans (6%). He became the first monthly MVP of his career, beating Hanwha Noh Si-hwan with a total score of 23.54 points.
It has been about two years since Ko Young-pyo in September 2021 that a KT player won the monthly MVP award.
Cuevas pitched 7 or more innings in all 5 games he appeared in in August, earning wins. He pitched without giving up any goals in 3 out of 5 games.
In particular, in 36 innings, he allowed only 2 earned runs, marking a 0.50 earned run average. The number of strikeouts was also 37, an average of more than 1 per inning. Cuevas has been very active in August and is recording 8 wins and no losses on the season.
Cuevas, who was selected as MVP, receives 2 million won in prize money.