Tyler Bortnick (Front Royal 2006) has been named the Southern League hitter of the week by milb.com!

Here is Sam Dykstra’s writeup on Tyler:

(.520/.586/.880, 7 G, 13-for-25, 3 2B, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 10 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 SB, 2 CS)
It’d be one thing to simply point out that Bortnick’s two homers Sunday against Pensacola were his first two blasts anywhere since Aug. 22, 2013, with Triple-A Reno and leave it at that. (Because that is pretty worthy of standing alone, as far as stats go.) But we should also say that it looked like Bortnick was building up to such a performance somewhat. Not exactly known for power, the 28-year-old second baseman collected three doubles between Thursday and Friday and was 11-for-22 in his previous six games before blasting off twice in Sunday’s 8-2 win. Bortnick was signed out of the independent Atlantic League by the Mariners back in June and has a .275/.358/.358 line with 13 extra-base hits and 12 steals in 64 games for Jackson.

Overall, Tyler hit a solid 275/356/360 in 65 games. Weirdly, though, the Mariners released Tyler, exactly one day after this article came out.

I suppose we can say Tyler went out in a blaze of glory….

Tyler Bortnick