Like it or not, “Fernando Tatis Jr. vs. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.” is a comparison we’ll be making for years to come. The San Diego Padres and Toronto Blue Jays have themselves two franchise players in the making, and only time will tell who better lives up to the hype.
The Dominican rookies have a lot in common: they both have fathers who played in the MLB; they’re both under high pressure to perform in their first year; and, perhaps most importantly, at twenty years old they’re already the faces of their respective up-and-coming franchises.