By Carrie Muskat
PITTSBURGH — If you would’ve asked former LSU second baseman Mike Fontenot on March 1 if he’d be on the Cubs’ Major League roster at the All-Star break with a .360 average, he would’ve laughed.
“To be honest, not at all,” Fontenot said Saturday, when asked if he thought he’d be on the big league team at this point.
“I thought I’d play this year and try to put up good numbers in Des Moines [with Triple-A Iowa],” the rookie second baseman said. “I was going to be a Minor League free agent after this year, and then see what happened.”
Instead, Fontenot was runner-up in the National League Rookie of the Month voting in June after leading the league with a .397 average. He has hit safely in 22 of 26 games since his call-up from Iowa on June 9.
“It’s really nice,” Fontenot said of his surprising first half. “I wouldn’t imagine I’d be here, or get the chance to play like I have been in the last month. It’s been great so far.”
It’ll be a pleasant All-Star break for the young infielder, who was 4-for-9 in his last two games, and hitting .360 overall.
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