2026 MLB Rookies Ready to Shake Up the Game: Who Will Become the Next Superstar?

2026 MLB Rookies Ready to Shake Up the Game: Who Will Become the Next Superstar?

“That’s a running joke from college,” said Wetherholt, a product of West Virginia University who led Division I in hitting as a sophomore in 2023 with a .449 batting average and an absurd 1.304 OPS. “We started to get a lot of national attention, whether it was articles about me, my teammates or just the team in general. That’s what we’d label it – poison.

“I do believe it’s cool to have people talk about you, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to perform,” Wetherholt continued. “Those guys who hyped you up will be the same ones to tear you down as soon as it goes bad. So you try to tune all that stuff out and just do the work that you can. And, hopefully, (the predictions) come true.”

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