A day after being named an All-Star starter for the first time in his career, Cal Raleigh added another award to his already record season.
Raleigh was named American League player of the month for June for the first time in his career on Thursday, becoming just the second Mariner honored with the award in the past 10 years.
Raleigh finished the month batting .300 with six doubles, 11 home runs and 27 RBI, slugging .690 with a 1.088 OPS in 26 games. Raleigh led the AL in RBI, slugging percentage, OPS and was tied for the league lead in homers with Jo Adell of the Angels.
Raleigh’s 33rd homer of the season came in the final game of June on Monday night and landed him in a group including Ken Griffey Jr. (1998), Sammy Sosa (1998), Mark McGwire (1998) and Barry Bonds (2001) as the only players to reach that mark before the end of June in baseball history.
He was named AL player of the week for the week of June 16-22 when he hit five homers and drove in 12 runs during the six games that week.
“It's nice to see your hard work pay off on a on a bigger stage and not just trying to play as well as I can trying to get the Mariners out there as well. Trying to boost us up as well,” Raleigh said Wednesday after the All-Star announcement. “Try to get us on a bigger stage and trying to help our kind of brand in the sense of we are winning baseball club, we have a good team over here.”
Raleigh is the first Mariner named player of the month since Julio Rodríguez in August 2023 when he batted .429 with seven homers and 30 RBI, including a four-game stretch where he had an MLB-record 17 hits. At the time, Rodríguez was the first Mariner to be named player of the month since Nelson Cruz in April 2015.
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