Jake Casey Named NWL Player Of The Week

Three doubles, four homers, 13 RBI among eye-popping series stats from #26 Blue Jays prospect

By Tyler Zickel

August 24, 2026

VANCOUVER, BC – Minor League Baseball has named Canadians outfielder Jake Casey as the Northwest League Player of the Week for August 17-23 after he went 9-for-23 (.391) with three doubles, four home runs, seven runs scored, 13 RBI, two walks and two steals while posting a 1.488 OPS in

VANCOUVER, BC – Minor League Baseball has named Canadians outfielder Jake Casey as the Northwest League Player of the Week for August 17-23 after he went 9-for-23 (.391) with three doubles, four home runs, seven runs scored, 13 RBI, two walks and two steals while posting a 1.488 OPS in six games. It's the first weekly honour of his professional career and the 12^th time a Canadian has earned a league award this season. That’s the most weekly recognitions for one team in the circuit this year.

Casey, 23, started his herculean week at the plate on Tuesday night with his second two-homer game as a pro, a solo shot for an insurance run in the fifth and a two-run bomb in the sixth to pad the lead before icing the game with a sacrifice fly in the eighth to post four RBI in a 10-5 C’s win.

He provided a go-ahead RBI double on Wednesday then drove in another run with a pinch-hit two bagger the following evening before a career showing on Friday. That night, the Pittsburgh, PA native not only went three-for-five with a double and two more home runs – including the game-winning three-run blast in the top of the tenth – but drove in a new personal best seven RBI while scoring three runs and working a walk.

The #26 Blue Jays prospect would single and score twice on Saturday then added another hit and a walk on Sunday to wrap his most productive six-game stretch as a pro over two seasons since he was drafted last year in the 15^th round out of Kent State.

Casey and the Canadians bring their push for the postseason back to The Nat Tuesday night to begin the final regular season home series of the year opposite the Spokane Indians (COL).

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