Fort Myers Mighty Mussels INF\/OF\u00a0Dameury Pena\u00a0has been named the first Florida State League Player of the Week in the 2026 season, as announced by the offices of Minor League Baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pena led the Mussels to a dominant 5-1 series win over the Jupiter Hammerheads in the week. He ranked first in the FSL with a .625 average, .714 OBP and 1.402 OPS throughout the week. Pena\u2019s .688 slugging percentage ranked third in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pena totaled 10 hits to just two strikeouts, while adding four walks and three stolen bases in five games played. His week was highlighted by a 4-for-4 effort in the Mussels\u2019 9-3 win on Friday, April 10. Pena split time defensively at second base and left field, while making a cameo at third base for the final inning of the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His .476 average and .621 OBP lead the FSL while his 1.145 OPS ranks second in the league through the first week and a half of the season.<\/p>\n
In 2025, the Mighty Mussels saw four players win FSL weekly honors. First baseman\u00a0JP Smith II\u00a0was the lone offensive player to bring home some hardware, doing so in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The full list of 2026 weekly award winners across MiLB\u00a0can be found athttps:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/fans\/players-of-the-week<\/p>\n
Pena and the Mussels were scheduled to return to the Lee Health Sports Complex Tuesday to begin a six-game series against the Lakeland Flying Tigers. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. with coverage beginning at 6:40 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Mighty Mussels INF\/OF\u00a0Dameury Pena\u00a0has been named the first Florida State League Player of the Week in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-231848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}