The Hello and welcome to episode 1338 of the sleeper in the bust. It is Thursday, September 5th. I'm your host Paul Sporer.

Join this afternoon by Justin Mason. Justin, good day. Good afternoon. How you doing?

I'm doing well. I forgot on Friday when I said see you all

Monday about the holiday. My fault. But we're not we're not leaving yet

empty this week. We got two episodes today and tomorrow. And today we're going to look forward a little bit,

a little bit beyond, well, it's kind of both.

It's a review, and then I'm obviously going to ask you

how you feel about these guys going forward.

But it's 10 rookie hitters, the highest volume rookie hitters as of now.

And of course things can change, but there's a reason I cut it off on the volume piece is because

all 10 of these guys have put up at least 450 plate appearances, right?

We've got an idea.

Doesn't mean that they can't change and or improve their improve or hurt their status

for next year, but we have a general idea of how we feel about these guys

for next year. So let's dive in and talk about these guys, how you felt this year and where you're at next year.

How's that sound?

Sounds great.

Let's start with perhaps the NL Rookie of the Year.

No, I'm actually not talking about Paul Skeen's for once.

And through no fault of his own, I think he's been chased down by one Jackson Merrill.

22 homers, 16 stolen bases, 294 average in a $25 player for 15 team for 15 teamers, play-rater value I should say.

That's incredible.

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