MIAMI - Major League Baseball announced today that Miami Marlins outfielder Kyle Stowers has been named the National League Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for July.
Stowers, 27, earns his first career MLB monthly honor and is the first Marlin to be named a National League Player of the Month since outfielder Giancarlo Stanton in August 2017. He is the fifth different Marlin to win the award, joining Jeff Conine (June 1995), Hanley Ramírez (June 2008), Emilio Bonifacio (July 2011), and Stanton, who owns the club record with three NL Player of the Month awards (also, May 2012 and June 2015).
The left-handed hitter slashed .364/.451/.818 (28x77) with 16 runs, five doubles, 10 home runs, and 20 RBI in 24 games during July while leading National League qualified hitters with his 1.269 OPS and 239 wRC+ (per FanGraphs). He also led all NL qualifiers in RBI and SLG while he was tied for first in fWAR (1.8), ranked second in AVG and OBP, and tied for second with 10 home runs. The El Cajon, Calif. native set club records in SLG and OPS for July, as both marks stand good for the third-best in any month in club history. Additionally, his 10 home runs were the most for a Marlins hitter in July since Giancarlo Stanton had 12 in 2017.
Highlighted by a career high five hits, three homers, and 14 total bases on July 13 at Baltimore, Stowers earned his second National League Player of the Week Award of the season on July 14. The honor made him the fourth player in Marlins history to win multiple NL Player of the Week Awards in a single season (also May 5). In his next game on July 18, he hit two home runs for his fifth multi-homer game of the season and became the first player in Franchise history with five home runs in a two-game span. He also joined Ty Cobb, from May 5-6, 1925, as the only players to record at least eight hits, five home runs, and 11 RBI in a two-game span since RBI became an official stat in 1920.
Stowers represented the Marlins at the 95th MLB All-Star Game on July 15 in Atlanta, Ga. He entered the game defensive replacement, going 0x2, and was selected as a National League participant in the first-ever All-Star Game "Swing-Off", which is used to determine a winner due to a tie game. The Marlins slugger hit one home run in three chances, and the National League defeated the American League in the Swing-Off to win the game, 7-6.
Stowers was acquired by Miami on July 31, 2024, from Baltimore with infielder Connor Norby in exchange for left-handed pitcher Trevor Rogers. In 105 games during his first full season with Miami, he ranks among the National League's top five in AVG (.296, 5th), SLG (.575, 4th), OPS (.948, 4th), and wRC+ (158, 4th).