There is learning that can only be achieved by doing.
What rookies in Major League Baseball learn is how long the season is. How difficult. How unforgiving. How unrelenting.
“It has not been easy,” Fernando Tatis Jr. said. … “Day (after) day, that’s the hard part. This game is not stopping. It’s hard.”
The difference when he talks about how difficult baseball is “at this level” playing against “the best players in the game” now versus using the same words in March or even April is that Tatis has played 78 games for the Padres, with No.