{"id":6819,"date":"2016-03-31T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baseballontheisland.com\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2016-03-31T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:07:06","slug":"joe-daru-wins-mvp-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axcessbaseball.com\/2016\/03\/31\/joe-daru-wins-mvp-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Daru Wins MVP of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It required nearly every single one of the 8,554 views he received, and <strong>Joe Daru<\/strong> was named <em>Baseball on the Island’s<\/em> MVP of March.<\/p>\n<p>For what it’s worth, had there been no voting I would’ve selected him, <strong>Tommy Zeigen<\/strong> or <strong>Angelo Navetta<\/strong> as the winner based upon their statistics. It’s easy to make a case for any of them, but Daru has been fantastic from day one this season.<\/p>\n<p>After starting his season with 11 hits in 13 at bats, he has continued his hot hitting into this month. He already has 33 hits through 24 games. He has accounted for 1\/5 of his team’s base hits, 1\/4 of their doubles, 1\/4 of their runs score and 1\/2 of their stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>He will be the starting CF for Team Nassau in the <em><strong>Battle of the Border<\/strong><\/em> on June 5 at<strong> Dowling<\/strong> College.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3147 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/baseballontheisland.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/asglogo.jpg\" alt=\"ASGlogo\" width=\"228\" height=\"228\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 228px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 228\/228;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those that don’t know, we wrote a<a href=\"http:\/\/baseballontheisland.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/joe-darus-detour-to-nyit.html\" target=\"_blank\"> feature story on him<\/a> in 2014 documenting his unprecedented journey all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Thailand; moved to Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Barbados, back to Hawaii, Fort Lauderdale, back to Thailand, Florida again, California before attending NYIT.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way he played in the 2013 World Baseball Classic representing Thailand along with Johnny Damon.<\/p>\n<p>NYIT is\u00a0certainly glad to have him aboard, and he is enjoying the best year of his collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It required nearly every single one of the 8,554 views he received, and Joe Daru was named Baseball on the Island’s MVP of March. For what it’s worth, had there been no voting I would’ve selected him, Tommy Zeigen or Angelo Navetta as the winner based upon their statistics. It’s easy to make a case for any of them, but Daru has been fantastic from day one this season. After starting his season with 11 hits in 13 at bats, he has continued his hot hitting into this month. He already has 33 hits through 24 games. He has accounted for 1\/5 of his team’s base hits, 1\/4 of their doubles, 1\/4 of their runs score and 1\/2 of their stolen bases. He will be the starting CF for Team Nassau in the Battle of the Border on June 5 at Dowling College. For those that don’t know, we wrote a feature story on him in 2014 documenting his unprecedented journey all over the world. He was born in Thailand; moved to Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Barbados, back to Hawaii, Fort Lauderdale, back to Thailand, Florida again, California before attending NYIT. Along the way he played in the 2013 World Baseball Classic representing Thailand along with Johnny Damon. NYIT is\u00a0certainly glad to have him aboard, and he is enjoying the best year of his collegiate career. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460],"class_list":{"0":"post-6819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"tag-archive"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Daru Wins MVP of March - Axcess Baseball<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axcessbaseball.com\/2016\/03\/31\/joe-daru-wins-mvp-of-march\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joe Daru Wins MVP of March - Axcess Baseball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It required nearly every single one of the 8,554 views he received, and Joe Daru was named Baseball on the Island’s MVP of March. 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