Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal has emerged as a frontrunner for the coveted pitching award in the AL, while Braves southpaw Chris Sale is turning back the clock on the NL side, looking to finally capture that elusive hardware in his 14th season in the bigs.
He wasn’t on the top team in travel ball. He wasn’t recruited by any DI colleges, so he walked on at Georgia, staying close to home. All those years of being overlooked and underestimated and yet here Charlie Condon is, a possible first overall pick in the MLB Draft.
MLB ballboys and ballgirls have made some All-Star-worthy plays this year — and now you can get them to Arlington alongside baseball’s biggest stars. Voting ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Some of the players on this list went on to Hall of Fame careers, others never made another All-Star Game, but all of them were at the pinnacle of the sport at an impressively young age.
