A refresher: Michael Conforto started the 2015 season in Class-A ball.
He finished the season with the second highest World Series OPS, with 1.046, of any player who played in multiple games in the 2015 World Series.
Only Curtis Granderson was higher with a 1.060 mark.
Not bad for a 22-year-old, playing his first season of professional baseball.
Here is the remarkable aspect of Conforto’s ascension: In an age when many young athletes believe the world revolves around them, Conforto has an attitude from a much different era.
There is good reason for that.