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This year's MLB Rookies of the Year show why teams playing their best young players benefits everyone

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The success this season of newly crowned Rookies of the Year Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson had a pretty obvious benefit for their respective teams: It made the teams better at winning baseball games.

That both Carroll’s Arizona Diamondbacks and Henderson’s Baltimore Orioles snapped brief postseason droughts in those players’ first full seasons is not a coincidence.