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AJ
RF New York Yankees
Aaron Judge
"The adopted son of two California schoolteachers, Aaron Judge became the first Yankee captain in a decade by saying very little and doing nearly everything."
AA
P Cincinnati Reds
Andrew Abbott
"A left-handed pitcher shaped by the Blue Ridge foothills and a Thomas Jefferson university, Andrew Abbott arrived in Cincinnati carrying something rarer than velocity: an uncommonly deliberate formation."
BW
SS Kansas City Royals
Bobby Witt Jr.
"The son who grew up inside the game's machinery — and arrived at the major leagues as though he had been there before."
FT
RF San Diego Padres
Fernando Tatis Jr.
"Born in the city that baseball built, Fernando Tatis Jr. inherited a legacy and then complicated it in every way that makes a person interesting."
FF
1B Los Angeles Dodgers
Freddie Freeman
"He grew up in a California town of five thousand, carries a Canadian passport that almost no one mentions, and hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history."
GH
SS Baltimore Orioles
Gunnar Henderson
"A 230-pound shortstop from the capital of Alabama, Gunnar Henderson arrived in Baltimore during a rebuild and stayed to redefine what the position looks like."
JS
LF New York Mets
Juan Soto
"Before his twenty-sixth birthday, Juan Soto had already won a World Series, rejected a nine-figure extension, and turned the batter's box into an act of public self-expression that the sport is still processing."
JR
CF Seattle Mariners
Julio Rodríguez
"Born at the edge of the Dominican Republic and the edge of an era, Julio Rodríguez is playing center field the way the next generation will play everything — with full presence, full expression, and no apology."
MT
CF Los Angeles Angels
Mike Trout
"The quiet giant from South Jersey whose career became baseball's most precise — and most poignant — argument about what greatness actually means"
MB
SS Los Angeles Dodgers
Mookie Betts
"Markus Lynn Betts grew up in Nashville playing baseball when the city's kids were playing football, and he has never quite stopped doing the unexpected thing."
PA
1B New York Mets
Pete Alonso
"Nicknamed for the Arctic, Forged in Florida's Heat — Pete Alonso Has Never Pretended to Be Anything He Isn't"
RA
RF Atlanta Braves
Ronald Acuña Jr.
"The son of a Braves farmhand who never reached the majors, Ronald Acuña Jr. turned a father's unfinished career into a category no one had ever occupied."
SO
TWP Los Angeles Dodgers
Shohei Ohtani
"The Eighty-One Squares: Shohei Ohtani and the Deliberate Architecture of Greatness"
SS
P Atlanta Braves
Spencer Strider
"Spencer Strider chose jersey number 99 before throwing a single pitch in the majors — and spent the next three seasons making it look conservative."