Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani might be the headline performers of the season, but this year's rookie class is the best in decades, boasting seasons of 4.8 to 5.1 fWAR by Julio Rodriguez, Adley Rutschman, Spencer Strider and Michael Harris II.
Any of those seasons would've been the best rookie performance since Judge in 2017; meanwhile, Strider has posted the most rookie pitcher WAR since Hideo Nomo's magical 1995 season. The last season with two rookies having WAR of 4.8 or higher was 2001, when Albert Pujols (7.