So this is a strange one … according to OOTP, everyone (well, virtually everyone) in the league is a rookie. So we’re instead giving it out to the best performing players who did not qualify for the league leaderboards–essentially mid or late season call ups.
Here are the position players under consideration
| Name | Tm | Pos | G | BA | OPS | SLG | WAR |
| John Briggs | BRK | OF | 39 | 322 | 415 | 529 | 0.9 |
| Jim Edmonds | HOD | OF | 71 | 293 | 348 | 576 | 2.0 |
| Al Kaline | DET | OF | 34 | 301 | 374 | 573 | 0.9 |
| Andy Van Slyke | HOM | U | 69 | 321 | 373 | 558 | 2.5 |
| Larry Walker | OTT | OF | 79 | 282 | 375 | 589 | 2.9 |
And, the pitchers
| Name | Tm | Record | G | GS | Sv | H | WAR |
| Bob Feller | CLE | 8-4, 3.89 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Greg Maddux | BBB | 6-7, 3.53 | 27 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Joseíto Muñoz | POR | 5-5, 2.57 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Mike Mussina | BAL | 16-7, 4.08 | 29 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1.9 |
| Bret Saberhagen | HOU | 4-7, 4.02 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Ed Walsh | CAG | 8-3, 3.26 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 3.2 |
I’m going to push Walker out of the running, as his limited time was almost exclusively through injury.
Muñoz is probably the most impressive performer over the small sample size. But it is a small sample size. We’ll go with Walsh, Van Slyke, and Muñoz.