{"id":801570,"date":"2026-08-03T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801570\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:50:12","slug":"esmerlyn-valdez-named-n-l-rookie-of-the-month-for-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801570\/","title":{"rendered":"Esmerlyn Valdez named N.L. Rookie of the Month for July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates outfielder Esmerlyn Valdez has been named the National League Rookie of the Month for July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Magician\u201d had eight home runs last month with an OPS of .942.<\/p>\n<p>He also led rookies with 54 total bases and a .587 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old also had five doubles and 25 RBI in 25 games in July.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Valdez is currently hitting .262 with 14 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>But, over his past five games, Valdez has only one hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirates outfielder Esmerlyn Valdez has been named the National League Rookie of the Month for July. \u201cThe Magician\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,233462,363,2240,340194,99],"class_list":["post-801570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rookie-of-the-month","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}