Rooker, Cease, S. Perez, Kikuchi, McNeil

A slight step back for Rooker, but all is not lost ...  It's hard to repeat a career year. Just ask Brent Rooker (OF, ATH), whose encore was solid (.262 BA, 30 HR, 6 SB) yet paled in comparison to 2024's breakout (.293, 39 HR, 11 SB). What does the next chapter look like?

Season	PA	HR/SB	BA/xBA	ct%	h%	QBaB	GB%/FB%	PX/xPX	HR/F	SB%/SBO
2021	213	9/0	.201/.231	63%	26%	ACc	36%/39%	137/123	20%	0%/0%
2023	526	30/4	.246/.233	63%	32%	AAb	34%/47%	162/156	22%	100%/4%
2024	614	39/11	.293/.259	68%	37%	AAc	33%/46%	177/158	23%	79%/9%
2025	698	30/6	.262/.268	75%	30%	BBc	37%/42%	137/128	15%	86%/4%

These skills lay an excellent BA/HR foundation:

• Rooker's h% predictably regressed from 2024's peak, but some major contact gains drove xBA to new heights. Perhaps he doesn't hold all of these ct% gains, but Rooker...

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