Usually we don’t run a full rumblings on holidays, but I wasn’t reminded of that until after I put all this together, so here we are!
MLB.com has each team’s top Rookie of the Year candidate for 2023:
Royals: Drew Waters, OF (No. 7)
Waters is sitting on exactly 45 days of service time, meaning he hasn’t exceeded the minimum needed to lose rookie status, so on the list he goes. The 23-year-old switch-hitter looked like he was languishing at Triple-A with the Braves but hit another gear after getting traded in early July, producing a .