Breaking Down The Three Strongest NL Rookie Of The Year Candidates

A good gauge of the state of any professional sport is the crop of young players establishing themselves in their respective medium. For Major League Baseball, a rookie player is thrown to the wolves to see how they fare against the sport’s best. Expectations are understandably tempered relative to their veteran counterparts, but this only makes the great seasons these players have all the more intriguing in the larger discourse. And while the award tends to rank lower on many a tier list of end-of-season awards, winning your league’s respective Rookie of the Year Award suggests that their respective employers…