
ALT Drake Baldwin: National League Rookie of the Year Atlanta Braves Pictured: Top left, Drake Baldwin celebrates a walk-off hit in a white Atlanta Braves uniform. Bottom left, Baldwin prepares to swing his bat in a red Braves uniform. Right, a large cutout of Baldwin screaming in a red Braves uniform. In the bottom right corner is Drake Baldwin’s signature in white.

ALT Drake Baldwin Stats among National League Rookies – min. 400 plate appearances 1st in Batting Average (.274) 1st in bWAR for Catchers (3.3) 1st in fWAR for Catchers (3.1) 1st in RBI (80) 2nd in Home Runs (19) 2nd in Total Bases (190) 3rd in Extra-Base Hits (39)

ALT Dating to the 1947 season, when the first national Rookie of the Year award was presented by the BBWAA, Baldwin is just the sixth rookie to reach 39 extra-base hits and 80 RBI while playing over half his games behind the plate, and the first to do so since Geovany Soto in 2008. Of the first five such catchers to reach Baldwin's counting stats in their rookie seasons, four were named Rookie of the Year - Johnny Bench in 1968, Earl Williams in 1971, Mike Piazza in 1993 and Geovany Soto in 2008.




















![Best OPS by a rookie catcher (min. 400 PA) since 2012 (.810) 2nd-best two-strike OPS in MLB [.750] (all players, not just rookies) 2nd-best RISP batting average by a rookie catcher since 2007](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2D5QfSWYAAzfrA.jpg?name=small&format=webp)












