Ildemaro Vargas Earns First Career National League Player of the Month Award
D-backs’ INF Ildemaro Vargas earned his first career National League Player of the Month award (for March/April) in his 10th MLB season. He is the first D-back to win the monthly honor since Corbin Carroll in August 2024 and 11th D-back all-time (12th award overall).
Hit safely in each of his 23 games, hitting .378 (34-for-90)/1.087 OPS with 6 doubles, 2 triples, 6 homers, 20 RBI and 3 walks.
Ranked among the Majors in AVG (1st, .378), SLG (3rd, .689), OPS (3rd, 1.087), triples (T-3rd, 2) and fewest strikeouts (5th, 11).
Was 1 of 7 Major Leaguers with 4+ games of 3+ RBI…became the third D-back all-time with 4+ games of 3+ RBI within the team’s first 30 games of a season (also: Paul Goldschmidt/2015 and Eugenio Suárez/2025).
His club-record 24-game hitting streak to start the season from March 30-May 1 was MLB’s third-longest streak since 1937, behind 30 by Ron LeFlore/DET (April 17-May 27, 1976) and 27 by Gee Walker/DET (April 20-May 23, 1937).
His single-season 24-game hitting streak tied for the second longest in franchise history with Tony Womack (24 in 2000), behind Luis Gonzalez’s franchise-record 30 in 1999.
His career-best 27-game hitting streak from Sept. 26, 2025-May 1, 2026 tied for the Majors’ longest streak since Trea Turner’s 27-gamer from Sept. 12, 2021-April 16, 2022…it was the longest all-time by a Venezuelan-born player, second-longest multi-season franchise streak [behind only Luis Gonzalez (30 in 1999)], and tied for the fifth longest all-time among switch-hitters with José Offerman/KC (27 from July 11-Aug. 7, 1998).
Earned his first career NL Player of the Week honor for the week of April 20-26 after hitting .364 (8-for-22)/1.409 OPS with 1 double, 1 triple, 4 homers and 12 RBI in 5 games…was his first time homering 4+ times and collecting 12+ RBI in a 5-game span…was first D-back with 4+ homers in a 5-game span since Corbin Carroll (4 from Aug. 6-11, 2025) and first with 12+ RBI since Jake McCarthy (12 from Aug. 10-14, 2024).
ALL-TIME D-BACKS MONTHLY AWARD WINNERS
1999
Matt Williams
April
2001
Luis Gonzalez
April
2001
Luis Gonzalez
June
2009
Justin Upton
May
2010
Kelly Johnson
April
2013
Martín Prado
August
2017
J.D. Martinez
September
2018
A.J. Pollock
April
2018
Paul Goldschmidt
June
2019
Nick Ahmed
August
2024
Corbin Carroll
August
2026
Ildemaro Vargas
April