Washington Nationals: In CJ Abrams (25) and James Wood (23), the Nats have a young duo that would arguably rank top five in the majors if we were solely looking at each team’s under-25 gruesome twosomes. However, forced to put some combination of Daylen Lile, Nasim Nu\u00f1ez and Brady House in the Nos. 3 and 4 spots in this core four, Washington narrowly misses the cut. Maybe House and Dylan Crews eventually change the story, though.<\/p>\n
Atlanta Braves: See, Washington Nationals. Atlanta has a pair of 25-year-old former Rookies of the Year in Michael Harris II and Drake Baldwin. But with JR Ritchie just three starts into his big-league career and none of AJ Smith-Shawver, Hurston Waldrep or Didier Fuentes much more established than that, this is way more of a two-headed force than a core four.<\/p>\n
Cleveland Guardians: In Chase DeLauter, Parker Messick and recent callup Travis Bazzana, Cleveland probably has more semi-viable candidates for Rookie of the Year than any other team. What the Guardians don’t have, though, is a single player who is young enough for consideration while also established enough to have accumulated more than 3.0 bWAR. Every other team that has been legitimately considered has at least one such player. Still, the future is bright.<\/p>\n
Chicago White Sox: Though he’s new to MLB, Munetaka Murakami is a few months too old to qualify for this exercise. However, as they show signs of emerging on the other side of their tank job, the White Sox do have an impressive nine players age-24 or younger who already have a positive career bWAR. Most notable among them are Colson Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and the presently injured Kyle Teel. They missed this year’s cut, but once a few of those youngsters make their mark, the ChiSox may well rank No. 1 on this list a year from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals: In CJ Abrams (25) and James Wood (23), the Nats have a young duo that would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-659981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}