Former Blue Devil Joey Loperfido named Pacific Coast League Player of the Month

Former Duke star Joey Loperfido was named the Pacific Coast League Player of the Month after he hit 10 home runs and drove home 20 runs in 22 games.

Former Duke baseball player Joey Loperfido was named the Pacific Coast League Player of the Month for April on Friday.

Loperfido, who played for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, hit 10 home runs and batted in 20 runs across 22 games in April. He ended the month with a .289 batting average.

The former Blue Devil notably hit three home runs in a single game on April 12. For the season with Sugar Land, Loperfido batted .287 with 13 home runs and 27 RBIs.

Loperfido won’t get the chance to defend his crown, however, as the Houston Astros called him up to the show this week. He drove in two runs with an RBI single in his debut game on Tuesday. He has two hits in his nine MLB at-bats thus far.

Loperfido played for the Blue Devils from 2018-21 before the Astros took him in the seventh round of the 2021 MLB draft.