Welcome to the Rookie Roundup, a weekly look-in on baseball’s best and most interesting first-year players. Last week, we showed some love for Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jackson Chourio, who, at age 20, looks like a budding superstar. Next up, it’s time to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Kumar Rocker to the big leagues.
Everybody knows the story, but the passage of time moves at a relative pace and can impact the ability to reliably recollect various series of events. So let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and wind the clocks all the way back to 2019, when the baseball world was enamored with a certain Vanderbilt freshman named Kumar Rocker.
