Rookies are a big part of Major League Baseball.
They are as much are part of the game as managers and coaches, bats and balls, and even veterans or All-Stars.
Every year rookies go to spring training hoping when they leave they’ll do so wearing an MLB uniform.
Rookie years sometimes alert fans of a great career about to happen.
Perhaps, a rookie year can even be the best year of a career that will never again have the same kind of promise; other times a rookie year can show the public a player might not live up to hype and prospect status that surrounded him coming through the minor leagues.
In the last few years, the MLB has had several Rookies of the Year winners who have seemingly launched great careers.
Dustin Pedroia’s 2007 Rookie of the Year campaign certainly seems to fit into one that alerted fans of great things to come.
Not only did he capture the award, but he lead off the World Series by
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