{"id":373976,"date":"2026-08-17T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373976\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:46:08","slug":"mighty-mussels-fragoza-named-fsl-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373976\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Mussels\u2019 Fragoza named FSL Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS \u2013\u00a0Fort Myers Mighty Mussels INF\/OF\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0was named the Florida State League Player of the Week for the week of Aug. 10, as announced today by the offices of Minor League Baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins No. 27 prospect led the FSL with a slash line of .667\/.800\/.1.583 while recording a 2.383 OPS in five games against the Clearwater Threshers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fragoza ranked second in HR (3), walks (7), extra base hits (5), runs (9), steals (5) and total bases (19).<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old becomes the third Mussel to earn a Player of the Week honor this season, joining\u00a0Quinn McDaniel\u00a0(5\/18) and\u00a0Dameury Pena\u00a0(4\/13).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fragoza is the 11th Player of the Week and 25th Player\/Pitcher of the Week for the franchise since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Fragoza leads the Mussels in average (.322) slugging (.607) OPS (1.005) and RBI (51) across 59 games played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fragoza has gone deep 14 times this season, tied for the second most home runs in a season since the franchise switched to Single-A in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mussels are back in action Tuesday, Aug. 18, in Palm Beach against the Cardinals. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. The team returns home on Tuesday, Aug. 25 for the final home series of the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS \u2013\u00a0Fort Myers Mighty Mussels INF\/OF\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0was named the Florida State League Player of the Week for&hellip;\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-373976","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\/373976","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=373976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373976\/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=373976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}