When you watch the Chicago Cubs this season, you are watching one of the best collections of rookie ballplayers ever assembled. That is not a hyperbolic proclamation born of Cubbie Kool-Aid-fueled fever dream, but an immutable and intransient fact. Mind you, I’m not saying I’m not somewhat intoxicated on the potent cocktail of talent and potential the Cubs have been serving up this season, just that my conclusions aren’t being skewed by it.
Or so I say.
Only a few days ago, I looked at Kris Bryant’s historic pace in terms of WAR by a rookie.