Welcome to the Rookie Roundup, a weekly look-in on baseball’s best and most interesting first-year players. Last week, we broke down the National League Rookie of the Year race between top contenders Jackson Merrill and Paul Skenes. Today, we’ll look at how a late-season resurgence by Parker Meadows has given the Detroit Tigers some postseason life.
It took a little over a month for Parker Meadows to go from Opening Day center fielder for the Detroit Tigers to a minor league demotion. It’s taken the same amount of time for him to save his season—and perhaps his team’s—from the brink.
