Major League Baseball announced today that Astros SS Jeremy Peña has been named the American League Player of the Week for the week of July 20-26. For the week, Peña hit .500 (13×26) in six games with five home runs and eight RBI while posting a 1.577 OPS.
Peña helped lead the Astros to a 5-1 record in the week by hitting a league-leading five home runs, including two leadoff homers and a grand slam, and recording a streak of three straight three-hit games. Overall during the week, he led all American League players in hits (13), home runs (5), runs (10) and SLG (1.077), ranked tied for first in batting average (.500) and OPS (1.577), and ranked second in RBI (8).
This marks the first career AL Player of the Week award for the highly-decorated Peña, who’s also earned an All-Star selection (2025), a Gold Glove award at shortstop (2022), and was named the ALCS and World Series MVPs in the Astros 2022 Championship season.
Peña is having a strong season, hitting .319 (72×226) with nine doubles, 11 homers, 30 RBI, eight stolen bases, a .373 OBP and an .877 OPS in 59 games, in which the Astros have gone 32-27. He’s had his season slowed due to a pair of IL stints, which sidelined him for a combined 48 games. Since his most-recent activation on July 10, Peña is hitting .419 (18×43) with a 1.214 OPS in 11 games.
This is the fourth AL Player of the Week award won by an Astro this season, with the previous three belonging to DH Yordan Alvarez (March 30-April 5, June 1-7, June 29-July 5). The Astros are the only AL team to win four Player of the Week awards this season.