MLB execs predict 2024’s impact rookies

March 30, 2024
by RJ Hamster

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TOP NEWS

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Wyatt Langford, Jackson Chourio, Evan Carter and Jackson Merrill have the attention of MLB executives

Who will be the top rookie in ’24? MLB execs weigh in …

We asked executives around the league the following question: Which rookies will have the biggest impact on their teams this season? Fifteen players received votes, though one stood out above the rest.

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‘Other guys’ Hernández, Miller come up big vs. Cards

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Holliday opens Triple-A season with leadoff homer

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Rookie Harrison on point in Giants’ first victory of ’24

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TOP PERFORMANCES

Fernando Tatis Jr. has no more need for his bat after launching a home run

Fernando Tatis Jr.: 2-for-4, 2 HRs, 2 R

With 114.9 mph HR, has the 2 hardest-hit balls this season

Matt Olson: 3-for-5, 3 RBIs, 3 2Bs

2nd Brave with 3 XBHs on Opening Day (Andy Pafko, 1954)

Freddy Peralta: 6 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 8 K’s

Ties for most Opening Day K’s in MIL history (Ben Sheets, ’02)

Oswaldo Cabrera: 4-for-5, 3 RBIs

1st Yankee with 6+ H in 1st 2 games of a season since ’05

Bobby Miller: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 11 K’s

Threw 20 pitches 99 mph or faster

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STAFF PICKS

Edwin Díaz, Miguel Sanó, Jackson Chourio, Matt Carpenter and Wyatt Langford are some of the stories we love this Opening Week

The best stories on 2024 Opening Day rosters

It could be a player making a triumphant return from injury, an elite prospect getting the call to the Majors or a Minor Leaguer overcoming the odds to reach The Show, but we love a good backstory.

College to Opening Day in 280 days

By his own admission, Wyatt Langford was the worst hitter on his Little League team. So he and his dad worked to turn him into a college star, a top Draft pick and now an anchor in the lineup of the defending World Series champs.

How Wyatt Langford rocketed to the Rangers

After her Opening Day call, the Hall comes calling

Athletics broadcaster Jenny Cavnar made history this season as the first woman to be the primary play-by-play announcer for an MLB team, and now permanent reminders of that milestone will be displayed in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Items used by Jenny Cavnar on Opening Day will have a place at the Hall of Fame

Bringing baseball and hope to young women in Uganda

This is the story of Baseball at Heart and how it’s finding hundreds of young women eager to learn and play the game.

Baseball, especially among girls, is spreading quickly in Uganda

Inspire inclusion: MLB celebrates Women’s History Month

Thoughout March, women at MLB and their allies held events and discussions to promote and support women’s sports and women in sports.

The 2024 International Women’s Day theme was hard to miss throughout MLB’s New York office: Inspire inclusion

Brewers vs. Mets on MLB Network

After a tight opener that got a little heated, Milwaukee and New York play the second game of their series today at 1:30 p.m. ET.

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