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I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

So we have talked a lot about rookies having superlative performances this season.

I wanted to look at what this looks like league-wide, and rookies are raken.

Rookies be raken.

This season, rookies, as classified by fan graphs, if I check the little rookies designation on the leaderboards,

rookies have collectively hit 280, 354, 523.

That is a 147 WRC plus.

Wow.

Yeah.

So rookies collectively have been one of the best hitters in baseball over the course of a full season.

So that means non-Rookies have been a little bit below average thus far because rookies have

brought up the league average themselves.

And obviously we're super early in the season here.

Small sample applies.

Except that when you put all the rookies together, it's actually not that small

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