Welcome to the Rookie Roundup, a weekly look-in on baseball’s best and most interesting first-year players. We’re back from the All-Star break and ready to dive in on which rookies will make the most substantial contributions for American League contenders during the season’s second half.
The week of the MLB All-Star Game always signals the lull of the sports calendar. Even in an Olympics year, we were bereft of much to talk about in the sports realm last week (there’s a reason the ESPYs are annually held in mid-July).
