The breakout season of the San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. did more than put him on baseball's radar. With the 2020s underway in a most unprecedented fashion and a younger generation bucking baseball's unwritten rules, it made him the clear choice as MLB's Latino Face of the Decade, as determined through a joint Hispanic Heritage Month collaboration between ESPN Deportes and FiveThirtyEight.
Fittingly, Tatis introduced himself to postseason baseball with two home runs and and one magnificent bat flip Thursday night in an 11-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals that evened the best-of-3 NL Wild Card Series at a game apiece.