Yermin Mercedes was one of the best — you know what? Let’s just lean into it —
— the best story of April, to open the 2021 season:
- Your American League Rookie of the Month.
- A historic 8-for-8 start, making Mercedes the first player in the modern era (since 1900) to begin a season with eight consecutive hits.
- A temperamental 1.113 OPS for Mercedes’ first month of his first big-league season.
- Yermin’s homer on April 8 versus Kansas City flew 485 feet, the second-longest home run hit by a White Sox in the Statcast era, inspirational enough for Fabulous Freddie’s to charge $4.