After being tabbed as the best minor league prospect baseball has seen in years, it only took one game for Wander Franco to provide a moment worthy of the hype that preceded his arrival to the big leagues. It’s taken just over a month for the switch-hitting shortstop to round into form and consistently play like a star.
Since homering and driving in three runs in his first-ever big league game, the Rays’ 20-year-old shortstop has had to endure the kind of growing pains that most rookies go through. In the 19 games after his debut, Franco hit .